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    An Old . Woman' * s J ^ etUr tp the " Vftrtitih ^ dbsir verS * '" '" ' ?¦* £ > ? o - .- - - «¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦

    I sent a letter to the Editor of th e Qh rU ti ^ a O bserver $ a . fe w months ago , init&e hope of obtaining some satisfaction on sundry matters which had occasioned me considerable embarrassment . I endtavouied to express myself ab civilly a * . I could ; but ., as he

    ftas ncvfcT taken the least , notice , no , not so much as to say on one of his blue covers , that he had received my letter , I was afraid at first , that 1 must have disobliged him ; but I have bince' been told

    that he does not like to answer difficult questions , . which is very hard upon . unlearned people .- — Nowy whichsoever of the two may be * reallv the fact , as I can have

    but little encouragement to trouble him anv more , I have determined to send my letter to the Editor of the Monthly Repository , who , as

    I am credibly informed , has not the $ fcirne _ objections . Please , therefore , Sir , to take it in good part , aud if richer yourself or any of your learned correspondents will condescend to favour me with

    an answer , I will engage for the future , 3 £ long as life and health shall be spared , not only to be a subscriber , but . a constant reader of the Monthly Repository . A true . Copy of my Letter to the Editor i ) f the Christian Observer .

    Mxt . EpiToii , As I take you to be a knowing man , a resolver of doubts , and an explainer of ^ lark sentences , one who is * xxpx . learned , vvbo is no casui t , auvl vyhp inquires tfie plainest statem ^ jQ t of the simplest proposi-

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    % ^? %$ < r m «« j 4 fiff | w d it , ^ * Jf >^ m WWg qu ^ i e / They wcre ^ ugge ^ d | & ^ ^ b y ;• no ^ 111 the , yer y i nt ^ uJ work of a , pious ^ beney ^ knt ^ ste ^ scholar , not more d isting ^ hej lor the goodness of his heart , tkau for the perseverance and intrepid , ity with which he obeys its dictates " and who is at the same time a warm friend to our national

    church as by law established . The note alluded to is as follo ws * u A national liturgy n that which preserves a relic of the true faith among the people ia a large empire where the priests leave

    their articles and their confessions of Faith . Woe to the cUclimuo church which hath no gospel lit . urgy ! Witness the Presbyterians in the West of England and some other sects , _ who are said to have become Ariahs and Socinianstoa

    man . ' Now , Mr . Editor , I would humbly ask , in the first place ^ Does the worthy author rajean by a gospel liturgy , one which is founded on the popular doctrines

    of a Trinity in Unity , of original sin and of the infinite atonement of one of the persons of the Trinity ( with reverence be it spoken ) to himself and to the other two . Being , as I said before , quite unlearned . I should have had no idea

    that this could be his meaning had he not immediately subjoined the deplorable state of our breth - ren in the Western part of the island , in proof of his denunciation .

    But passing this ; I would iftquire , in the second place , how it Jbappens that ( he want -of this sarn ^ national gospel liturgy shouW have produced such direful C <> n ^ sequences ?—I never was in Devoid

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    652 An Old Woman ' s Letter to the c < Christian Observer >*

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/12/