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$ he influence of the Popish priesthood . The court attends a public mass every day , where the fervent devotion of all the members of
the royal family is eminently conspicuous . There have been some public processions and exhibitions of relics , on certain great festivals ; and I was informed that ( hey were
contemplated with respect by the lower orders . But all these efforts to restore popery produce little effect ; although I believe they are injurious to the cause of
true religion . In the higher and middle classes , infidelity is almost universally , and in very many instances , ostentatiously professed : and it is evident , from the weak and impertinent objections
urged in defence of their system , by those who reject revelation ? that they have been led to this unhappy conclusion , by
erroneously confounding the absurdities and the mummeries of Popery with the sublime truths of our holy faith . If religious liberty were enjoyed in France as it is in our happy island , this country would offer an extensive and promising field for the labours of some zeal
ous professor of rational Christianity , whose knowledge of the French language should enable him to promulgate the truths of " pure religion and undefiled , " from the pulpit and the press .
I yesterday paid a visit to Mons . Rabot , who is one of the preachers in the principal church allotted to the reformes of Paris * He is a brother of the celebrated Rapotde St . Etienne . and was himself a member of the convention . 1 ft answer to my inquiries , this gentleman assured me that no polemical discussions on points of kith had been agitated in France
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for a considerable time . The Protestants are Calvinists , and submit implicitly to the direction of their Genevese pastors : the Roman Catholic continues to receive ,
without hesitation , the decrees of papal infallibility , Mr . Rabot was not aware that a single pamphlet of controversial divinity had been
published in Paris for a series of years . The study of the English language is a fashionable pursuit , and English literature is highly esteemed ; but books on * reli 2 ion or morals have few or
no readers in France . On political subjects there is great diversity of opinion . The late Emperor has many admirers , and the greater part of the army is still strongly attached to him . The feelings with which they
contemplate their late overthrow , and the triumphal entrance of the allies into their capital , border on insanity ; and they vent their rage in the most intemperate and opprobrious language against the senate and some of the marshals *
The ex-empress appears to be as completely forgotten as if she had never appeared in France . The Emperor of Russia is universally mentioned with respect . Talleyrand ' s talents are held in the
highest esteem ; but some prejudice is entertained against his clerical derivation . This prejudice operates more forcibly against the Abbes de Montesquiou and d Ambray . The new government daily
acquires strength , and no doubt can be entertained of its stability * The stupendous events and the wonderful changes , of which the French have , so lately , been the astonished witnesses , in their owij country , have withrawn their attention from foreign ' occurrences *
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State of Relig ion , fyc . in Trance . 629
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/41/
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