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consequently , Mr . Editor , they were degraded to the ranks . It is with unspeakable satisfaction , I inform you , that we can
now' muster about thirty sticklers for the divine Unity , in this corner of the kingdom . We have opened two large rooms ; one at Flushing , the other at Falmouth ; the latter will hold about five
hundred people , and is often crowded , for the purpose of worshipping Jehovah , the God of the universe , the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , the only proper object of religious adoration .
Messrs . Philp and Treleaven preach alternately ; the latter , a popular local preacher among the Methodists , was expelled by Mr . S . merely because he expressed
his disapprobation of Mr . S ' s conduct at Flushing and Falmouth ; and furthermore , is actually expelled from his home , by his own mother . He has been a Sabellian
( i . e . a Unitarian in a fog , ) for some time , and appears now to besincerely examining the evidences of what we call the doctrine of the gospel . I am Yours , &c , , An Enemy to Popery , THOMAS PROUT .
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Musical Taste . Sir , Nov . 22 , 1812 . You recollect , I daresay , what evil propensities one of our dramatic poets has attributed to The man who has not music in his soul ; yet I never supposed , till lately , that a taste for the charms of
music Ixad been ranked aTmong the Signs of grace . Such , however , appiears to have been the fact ,, if we may depend op the historical ac-
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curacy of Sir W . Temple , whose Essay Upon Poetry l have just read . At the close of the Essay he has the following passage :
" I know very well that niany who pretend „ to be wise , by the forms of being graVe , are apt to despise both poetry and music , as toys and trifles , too light for the use and entertainment of serious
men . But whoever find themselves wholly insensible to these charms , would , I think , do well to keep their own counsel , for fear of ' reproaching their own temper , and bringing the goodness of their natures * if not of their
understandings into question . It may be thought , at least , an ill sign , if not an ill constitution , since some of the fathers went so Jar as to esteem the love of music a sign of pre » destination ^ as a thing divine and reserved for the felicities of heaven itselfy
I wish any of your readers , conversant with the writings of the fathers , would give the authority to which Sir Wo Temple here refers . Watts seems to have indulged the same speculation , when he composed the following stanza ;
My willing soul would stay . Id such a frame as this . And sit and sing herself away To everlasting bliss . The professors of the Sister Arts of Paint and Verse have been equally forid of this idea .
I have often seen a picture of the Flight into Egypt , in which the notion is , carried very far . Several angels are represented as paying their vocal homage to the fugitives ^ each with a musi € » book 'in his hands . OTIOSUS . , . > \ . i ¦• ¦ ¦ ' . - >
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302 Musical Taste .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/18/
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