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    seal has at length given notoriety and decision to the Genevan Unitarians , with whom Servetus , rather than Calvin , is now the tutelar saint . The following- articles on this interestingsubject are from the Newspapers . An article from Lausanne , dated the

    23 d August , in the Paris Papers , says" An English Methodist , Mr . Drummond , domiciliated at Geneva , is , it is said , preparing a new French translation of the Bible , not finding that of the pastors and professors of Geneva sufficiently faithful . He is employing several young- theologians to translate into French the latest works of

    the English Methodists . It is understood that he intends to reprint the works of Calvin . Wk find the following article in the Journal du Co ? nmerce ^ dated from Geneva , the 5 th September : — " The sect of Methodists in this city , encouraged in various ways by Mr Drummond , a rich English

    gentleman , increases and acquires more consistence every day . From the Hotel of Secheron , which they make their headquarters , they correspond with the reformed churches of Switzerland , Piedmont and the South of France , with the view of inducing them to subscribe to their new translation of the Bible , and their

    republication of Calvin . They have published , through the medium of an Advocate , named Grenus , a justificatory Memoir , havingfor its title , * An Historical View of the Reformed in the Eighteenth Century , ' in which they accuse the majority of the Genevese Ecclesiastics of evidently leaning towards the doctrines of the Socinians . The Editor of this brochure manifests an

    ardent zeal for the opinions of the 16 th century . Mr . Drummond himself havingaddressed a letter to the pastors , in which he considered them as heretics and blasphemers of the name of Christ , has been ordered by the Council of State to suppress his Letter , and to make a promise to be more circumspect in future . "

    An article dated Geneva the 30 th Sept . m the Journal du Commerce , says , " Two forei gners recently arrived here , one M . L « o , and the other Mr . Wells , an English gentleman , announce , it is said , the project of taking Mr . Orummond's place with the sectarists of Geneva . The former is employed in distributing books of devotion , d

    a « the other teaches and preaches Mefhodism . The paper war which has existed for some weeks between the Puritans and the rational people does not seem hkely to terminate . The Sieur Gremes « as published a second diatribe , in which e c ° ntinues to accuse the Genevese clergy « f Socinianism j and Empeytoz from the

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    bosom of his pious retirement with Madame de Krudener , has launched forth new attacks upon the doctrines of the pastors of Geneva Every day gives birth to some new brochure , either attacking or defending- the Established Church . "

    The following is an extract of a letter , dated the 17 th ult . from Geneva : — " It may be interesting to you to learn in what way the thinking people o ? Geneva find mental occupation in this season of peace and tranquillity , when the want of stimulus is so heavily felt by all the tribe of the soi-disa ? it politicians . The good folks here do not trouble themselves at

    this moment about politics . Content with the freedom they enjoy , rejoicing * in being * delivered from French bondage , from the conscription , and taxes to which they were subject under the tyranny of Buonaparte , and proud of their union to the Swiss Confederacy , they seek no political change ; but dissensions of another nature seem to

    threaten danger to the happiness , if not to the internal quiet , of this peaceful city . Religious controversy at present gives employment to these reflecting citizens ; as yet , but a war of pamphlets and of letters merely , but which in the sequel may give rise to the establishment of sects , and of new places of worship in this cradle of Calvinism , where there has been but one church—one and indivisible—since the

    Reformation . Let me give you some account of this dissension . 44 whole of the clergy here are publicly accused of having departed from tlje pure faith as established by John Calvin , and of being at this day Aiian and Socinian , hut not Christian ministers . This change of principles is said to have

    occurred some years past . It appears , that in 1805 the clergymen here published a new translation of the Bible , where the confession of faith , founded by Calvin , was suppressed , which had been attached to ail the former editions ; and in this new translation , it is said , the text where it relates to the Divinity of Jesus Christ , has been materially altered . Added to this

    is the complaint , that the Catechism of Calvin , which was taught in the schools , was laid aside , as well as that of Osterwald j and a new Catechism put forth by the Ministers in 1814 , in which is found the following question : — < Q . What Tesult * from all that we have said of the person of Christ ?—A . That we ough ^ to be penetrated with respect for him . '

    " On this the faithful here exclaim , that Mahometans profess to do the same ; and that this Catechism tends completely to destroy the doctrine of the Divinity of our Saviour . Then conies the last act of the clergy , which has been the immediate cause *

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    Intelligence . —Unitarianism at Geneva * 6 S 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1817, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2469/page/59/