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    rian . ^ Thtft is , one who acknowledge * the one only true 6 rod 9 and Jesus Christ as his messenger and servant . ) In general a chaise is ordered on Sundays to take myself and family to a place of divine worship in this town , and to take us back after the afternoon service . One shilling is demanded as toll at the turnpike gate , and of course paid . This has been the practice for many years * J . P . ^—^

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    Mr . HoWe , a * the Perieeutien of the Protestants of France 15

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    are deluded by blind bigotry and in furiate religious zeail , and redound to the credit of their own humane feelings , liberality and Christian spirit . THOMAS HOWE . The preacher having read some of the interesting and affecting details of the sufferings of our persecuted brethren in the South of France , thus

    proceeded : «« I am persuaded that there is not one among you come to years of understanding , whose tender feelings are not greatly excited- by the details which have been now read , of a persecution originating in the

    most shocking religious bigotry and fanaticism , and conducted with peculiar savage cruelty ; a persecution carried on in despite of the Edicts of the King on the throne ; supported by armed bands , raised and organized without his authority , and under a

    constitutional charter which guarantees to all the people the freedom of religious sentiment and public worship . I cannot doubt of your readiness , my friends , to contribute to the alleviation of distress , which cannot be contemplated without a mixture , of horror and the tetiderest emotions *

    * Blessed / said our diviue Master , ' are they which are persecuted for righteotisness' sake , for theirs is the kingdom of heaven . ' And surely a blessing from the God of mercy may be expected to descend on him , who espouses the cause of the persecuted ; who does his utmost to alleviate their

    sufferings ; ^ rho cannot restore tcr them their parents , their children , their brother * or sisters that have been inhumanly butchered , contributes to supply the destitute survivors with bread to eat . with raiment to clothe

    them , with habitations in which * 1 x * reside , with Christian temples wherein to wotsfcip the God of love atfd grace , arid with ministers to preach to them the words of consolation , hope atvd eternal life . As nothing can be more becoming a 'disciple of the ten

    der-hearted Jesus , than thus to relieve his persecuted brethren , so such actsr of piety and compassion tetttt to afford the purest satisfaction to his own mind , and "we'tnay foeasstnred -will be peculiarly acceptable to that gracious befng who is declared * to be

    • the refttge t > f the oppressed , ' fcrtd 4 mereiftil to tltate ' vrbcfirfhetir mercy . *• Before I coitcliKte , th&t tstndOTr

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    » j&ridport , Dec . 19 , 1815 . Sm , ON receiving the two circular letters from the Committee of the Protestatit Dissenting Ministers of the three Denominates in London , on the merciless persecution which has for some months raged against the Protestants in the South of France , I

    took an early opportunity of laying their distressing case before my people , persuaded that this would be sufficient to excite their tender sympathy and prompt their ready relief . If you think the conclusion of my sefmon on this occasion , in the least

    degree calculated to aid this benevolent cause , and at the same time , to check aiiy unreasonable prejudice , jealousy and dislike towards the Catholics in the united kingdom , which the atrocities of those who bear their

    namein a neighbouring country , tend to produce , it is at your service for insertion in your liberal Repository I mention the latter circumstance ,

    because i perceive danger of it arising frbm the sympathetic feelings which are generally excited in favour of the persecuted , and indignation against the fanatical persecutors . Let the maxim , however , of the heathen

    moralist be observed , fiat Justitia . Let riot the inmocent suffer fbr the guilty As we are professing Christians , it becomes as to act towards others , at all times , on the comprehensive rule of our common master , # < Whatsoever

    ye Would that men should do to you , dSo ye even so to them . " As a Wiend to We just rights of all classes of the ccrwmutiity , I would suggest , ttrfct if the Catholics in this country , were as a body to express their abhorrence of this sanguinary persecution of the Protekaitfta in France , and contribute to the relief of the siiffefers , it wtmld have a powerful tendency to restrain the outrages of those persons , ^ ho

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1816, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2448/page/15/