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bg . each , co ^ rc ^ Aj ^ n , ^ wfc eii oq ce sn <;\} . , ^ t s a ^ sociation , was fojjned , tjie communications which it would
establishf and the weight wb'fch its representations would carry to the body ^ rhose rights it would protect , would ensure \ t proper support when necessary , perhaps , some of your readers WiHt ? ke up the idea , and suggest some plan for carrying it into effect . VIGIL .
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Sir , Jan . 18 , 1818 . IF , it yvejre not a subject of considerable interest as affecting the rights of Dissenters and Unitarians in particular , I should think it unnecessary £ 9 , reply to Mr . Steward ' s Vindication of his conduct towards the \ % oiverhamptojn congregation , £ XI 1 .
§§^>] b ^ iug fully aware that congregational disputes must be very tedious an ^ uninteresting to the public : but X ; fin 4 it has been expected by spuie of ,. our | riei \^ s , that notice should he t ^ Ren of that Vindication , in order to cj ^ ar tlietrapsactiori in question , of tie misrepresentations in which it has
l > eefi iqyoLyed ; you . will therefore pbfrge , me by . giving room in the Repository , to a few rejrnarks , jit is very true that ftfr . Steward ' s settling here , in 1813 , was w \ th the Qons ^ nt of the majority , and this has not been denied : but it is not true
that Mr . Steward was chosen for the limitefl term of . thr ^ e years at the siiggestiop of the r trustee who op posed his comipg i that t ^ rm was fixed at Jth / e recommendation of some of his wavmest friends , and it was distinctly
understpod by each party that the connexion should then terminate , unless another iqvitation topk place . I cannot see why JVIr . Steward should wish to l ^ iiravel this business ; he was chosen by , a vote of the congregation , with the motives of which he has
2 i nothing to do ; but if he opens that subject , and chooses the world to fcjnpw that there were eveii ^ then some wfao distrusted and disapproved of hiua ^ ther ^ . cap be no qbjectiOH to its bjeipg known , ? indf I shall not scruple to
to aypw that th ^ tf wstee yvhoi ^ he alludes , : &nd his fifeily , did disapprove of him 3 ^ , a minister , jya . < d t \ ifl pp f ^ oya a co n ^ ic ^ t | 0 | i » / estimate ^ hicfi th ^ y tj * en formed of h \ $ | at ^ hjts ^ conduct and ^ riaMet ^ fj ail V 0 yi $ Kim ± fpX jtti e situation of au Unitarian minister . 1 will
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further a ^ d , tftW evjent . fias s ^ wn tfiat their judgment was not er |* oneou ^| and . that it wpuld naye b ^ e iiI ha ^ j ^ \ 'fof £ tl parties if Mr . Steward Aad riot Ke £ ri
invite ^ . It is also true that at tlie expifation of the term a majority of the cbngfenation would prob ? ibl v , if he had be ^ n put in nomination , have chosen him
again ; but of that and the ground on which they woultf haydso actecl , more shall be said hereafier . , , , The term .. having expired * aaj 3 np fresh appointment l ? avin ^ taRep jplace ^ if became the peculiar , ddt ^ of Jj [| ie trustee , whom Mr . Steward so ofteii mentions , who had tte payment of the funds , and who had become
acquainted with his change of opinions , when he paid him his salary tip to the end of the terin , pii th ^ Jfast Sunday in May ( not tlie first of I ^ f a ^ as Mr . Stewai ^ staies ) fo /^| ninid \ |^| m of the expiration ot his en ^^ etti ^ nt , ; without a renewal of which iie would Ji a §
not ^ thenceforth trigat ^ ioi tlie jqfiihisier oi ^ the cpnfeTeS : atiofi , Ttiis letter ( which you should have verbatim * . to see hpw far it inerits flBe ( efAtneta applied to it ^ if it ^ jweire not fo t- engrossing top TnucJi of your roojr ^)^ Mr . Steward ^ says gaye great ^ offence . to the " principal persons of tiie con ^ regatiQii , " tliat is to say , to ifte . sape majority , who , he calculat ^ ivoiild haye re-elected him , which , if jjf io fie observed , thev might have done , at any tiqie if , as Mr , Steward contends , they had been so desirous of aoin&tiL JLet us now inquire what was the
ground of this feeling at tfia < time , how ^ Iong it continued , and what was the part Mr . Stewai ^ placed in ex ^ citing and sMpportiti ^ it . To tfies ^ questions I sliail answer , thai tli p ^ e persons , woijl < v have supported j ^ jr . Steward , if pfc & \\ 9 tiecaiise lib would liav ^ be hi in Jfeir estiination a $ L sistent mtanan
^ J , Hiougli 1 ^ sj ^ al soon shew , from . his own confession * thatt he had th ^ changed fys opinions ; that as soon as an exriinnatinn ^ rinlri
talce , place , ani they . were iiiformed * e fi ling in fos $ xoi »| £ r disavowirif tlie chancre that had taken DlacR
Steward represents his conduct With
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) tf 4 Trustee ' s Reply io Mr . Steward ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/18/
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