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prop nation s of a part of our pro . perty would be scarcely felt : and they would gradually amount to a considerable sum , which , if the cases applying for assistance
were few would be accumulating against the day of want , and when the pressure actually did arrive it would be relieved more copiously and with infinitely less unpleasant feeling than it is now .
By this plan , charity , if I may so speak , or the communication of our goods for the general cause , would become more a habit or system—and not be so dependant on mere momentary caprice or feeling as it is at present .
I arn aware that the Unitarian Fund" professes to assist the cases above alluded to ; but I believe it will be owned that it is not sufficient for the purpose—at least the numerous applications for re .
her which have passed through my bands during the time I have had the honour of filling the office of Secretary to the Southern Unitarian Society bring me to this conclusion . But it may also be
remarked , that a fund so raised as now proposed , might in part be appropriated to the relief of poor ministers , or other worthy persons who accidentally might become distressed , and who had by their exertions , when able to give them , deserved well of the Christian com *
munity to which they belong . In short , Sir , a fund of the sort I have specified , would be , I conceive , highly beneficial ; and might be found useful for many
purposes ; and the mode of raising it is not liable to any objections which do not apply equally to any associations for charitable purposes . People may contribute mnaqually—this they do now—
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and all we can say is , that if it be true , that he who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord " the largest donor in proportion to his means , with an equally pure motive , may look forward to a larger recompence at the resur - rection of the just .
I am Sir , Yours , JOHN FULLAGAR . P . S * As this plan to be efficient , should be generally adopted , it might be well for those congre . gations which are inclined to act upon it , to notify their intention in the Repository .
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State of Religion ^ fyc . France . £ The following is an extract from a letter to the editor , written at Paris , by a very intelligent clergyman , to whom he had submit , ted certain questions with regard to the actual state of France ,
especially with regard to religion . Ed . ] Paris , 24 th Sept . 1814 .
-w * "T" ^^ ¦ " ^ I have , visited several of the churches , at the hour of public worship . The congregations were tolerably numerous , but almost entirely composed of women of the lower classes of society—nearly in the proportion of one roan to
ten women . Indeed so very generally does infidelity prevail , and such is the contempt in which les P ret res are held , that few men , whatever may be their private convictions , have the courage to avow
their respect for religious observ . ances . The royal family , who retain all that devoted attach ment to their spiritual guides , which they imbibed in the seclusion of their exile , use every means of precept and example to restort
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• 28 State of Religion , tyc . in France .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 628, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/40/
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