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tcstant * ? fe regret however the animosity that prevails among sects . How iisgra qefut is it to the Christian name ! Bach party prides itself on some cirt-umstance or another foreign to Christianity . Their fathers went to the mass
house , or to the dhurch , or to the meetjug-their friends , their connections belong ro this or that party . Bat which pi them is anxious to worship God spiritually and in truth ; to bend his mind to the love of hi * neighbour ,
inculcated by his Saviour : and who attends to the awful words , u He who lofcs father or mother or brother or jifcter or wife or children more than me , knot wo > r ± hy of me ! ' * The cause of religion "will finally triumph . How glorious would it have been if England could have shewn her
# her pure and simple form , to men , wbd t with their ancestors , from the remotest antiquity have been immersed inttiedarkeu superstition and idolatry ; Thequeen of Sheba travelled from a ltmdte quarter to hear the wisdom of Solotnori \ if we had used properly the advantage ^ bestowed upon us in the sacredvoiume , now in almost every hand ,
We might have said , A greater one than Solomon is here . The arrival of a « Jiip from Africa , nvigated by Blacks , filled out mind with agreeable sensations . It portended the improvement of civilisation , the
• tteniion of commerce , a freer inter-Morse between Africa and England . But , when we heard that the master of the % t ra $ a Christen , that his heart ex-J ^ nded with the lore of Jegus , that he looked up with reverence and grati tudc tea crucified iaviour , and sought these
shores for a better acquaintance with nil name , '' wit h- ' what joy did we cmwacc the presage , that that name would fflortly be madt feciown in all the re-£ o& 5 of Africa ! How did we lament ™* . he should find in this country the Wiplcs of Jesus so widely differing fi&m each other , and Instead of for-Wardmg the designs of this piou * Black , ^ "kcW to cbtifbdhdhim by the varies ttaditioris they have engrafted on ^ everlastin g gospel ! May he and his wcthrtn fall into &oo < liahds , convene ^ tft meft . ^ o love the Lord Je $ us , and were to his vt 6 ifel May they be S ??*^ in the t rue faith , know Weel that Gbil i * love , and worship Cm - * tru & * 4 P ^ ^? att , as the g tot-frtttatf * f < nf t ^ d J « iUt
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Another occurrence has taken place of sorne importance to the religious world / A disgraceful attempt has been made to revive the Conventicle Act , and in a very extraordinary manner . Some children of the poor ha ^ re bee n
educated under the auspices o £ Commissioner Grey , at Portsmouth , in a dwelling : of his , and in consequence the teacher and the owner of the house have been prosecuted . The first action was brought against the teacher , which led to the examination of the books used in
the school , consisting of bibles and prayer boolcs , and the usual books of education ; and the magistrate , so far from entertaining the charge , treated the prosecution , £ as it deserved , and the jury found a Verdict of Not Guilty , The other action was dropped ; and the papers mention the name of a clergyman of the established church , as the
instigator of these odious prosecutions . May every similar attempt meet with fcirnilar disgrace ! We are sorry that we cam give no favourable account of gut Sovereign . Ho is in that state , in whi h every son would wish his father's name not to be mentioned .
Abroad , the French continue to be successful . They appear to be master * of every part of Spain they possess , yet they have not taken Cadiz , nqr do they appear likely to pursue the English and Portuguese forces in Portugal . The com * bincd army in that quarter consists only of these two nations . The Spaniard *
have entirely left Lord Wellington , who is not strong enough to advance , and he must be a patient spectator « f events during this summer * T }> e brother of Napoleon has returned to his capital at Madrid : he seem ?; not to have met with any interruption in his way , and to have received in the large towns all
the usual homage paid to a sovereign . It is very probable that the Spaniard * in his dominions feel that they shall be better goverried under the new-than-tbc old dynastyt and however we may lament this accession of strength to France , we cannot deny that the probabilities are all in favour of this supposition .
In France , the legislative body hat broken up , with usual addresses to Bu 6 * naparte , and prodigious accounts of tfrc improvement of the country . War ha « burst forth in all its fury in t ^ e Tti itiRI 9 rt dominions . The Turkt "were tltc a $ * &Uant « > and have met with a corntfeat . Thus expectations of peace
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State ef Public Affairs . 507
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/59/
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