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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRSOR, The Christian 9 s Survey of the Political World.
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That the Church of England is in great danger , we took last month upon the word of a Bishop ; the same fear has been again announced by a distinguished , divine of that church , and it is accompanied with a similar
apprehension ,. that the state is also , in consequence , in danger t > r . Marsh , the Margaret Professor of Divinity in the . University of Cambridge , is well known in the learned and in -the theological . world . His Translation of Micha < rlis has been
read with great satisfaction by all parties ; and , if in his late Lectures he trod upon some untenable ground , and on which it was not generally . expected that the Professor would venture his foot , he displayed a degree of teaming and zeal , that raised him high in
the public esteem . The last place , in which he signalized himself , was the Cathedral of St . Paul ' s , where he preached a sermon to the collective body of charity children , and unfortunately made it a vehicle of some pointed animadversions on the excellent plan of
education , laid down by Mr . Lancaster . To these charges Mr . Lancaster replied in the Morning Posty and the Doctor , never backward in controversy , defended his portions , and announced his intention of giving in the same paper a scries of letters upon the same subject .
The question is of great importance , and involves in it pointy , in which the happiness of families and nations is involved . Mr . Lancaster and Dr . Bell arc the heads of two systen ^ of education , resembling each other in many
respects , bnt differing essentially in one particular . Mr . Lancaster teaches his children the Bible , independently of party considerations . He wi hes to lanake them Christians first , and then leaves the choice of the sect to their
mature judgement . Dr Bell wishes them also to be Christians , but they must be so according to his particular cut , and , therefore in reading the Bible , the tenets of the Church of England are continually to be held in view , and Ijer creeds and catechisms arc to be the i ^ Ica pf the children ' s taith .
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Dr . Marsh is the advocate of the latter system , which he contends is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the government in church and state : and he contends , tjiat a member of , the Church of England cannot consistently givc his countenance to the other mode of education . His mode of reasoning docs u « t tell in favour of the church .. If ,. according to him , the Lancastrian plan is
adopted , in the next generation the Church of England will be without supporters : and then comes in the old argument , the church will f be overthrown and with it the state . With respect to the church , the tXoctor ' s fears are pot groundless . Let us suppose a generation to be taught the Bible unsophisticated with the traditions of popery , or the articles and creeds of the Church of
England . Would any clergyman venture to get up , and read to a congregation of such people the Athanasian Creed ? would a single soul join with him in a prayer to the "holy , blessed , and glorious Trinity ?" . We believe that , if these questions were put to Dr . Marsh , and he could with propriety answer them , he would make the same
answer , as every other person probably who reads the questions will do . To make the next generation members of the Established Church , bend their minds when young to its dogmas . teach them according to Dr . Bell ' s plan . Would you enlarge their minds , an < i make them gQod Christians , l « t Mr . for
Lancaster ' s plan be pursued . The - mer is the road to slavery and implicit faith , the latter to liberty and truth . « If ye are my disciples then shall ye be free indeed , * has said our Saviour , gnd no man can gainsay his doctrine . But the point comes home to every man ' s bosom , whether in or out of the Church arents
of England . We say to p , w you wish your children to follow trutii or error ? Would you rather that they possess emoluments with error , or env brace truth with poverty and a pure conscience ? We who were broug ht up in the Church of England , the arrows a * whose articles entered into our so , v ^
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairsor, The Christian 9 S Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRSOR , The Christian s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/60/
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