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INTELLIGENCE.
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Israelites , and to the lands granted them according to their established rules . In these letters must be stated when and Tvhere the candidate has been converted to Christianity , and to which confession he "belong-s—what his profession is- —how large his family and how old every one of its members—likewise the name of his
residence , viz . In Jivbich town , Tillage and county he lives , that the Committee may know where to address their replies—both the Christian and family name must also " he distinctly written . Such communications may be written iu ' Russian , Polish , and German languages , and upon ordinary paper . By this means the Committee will be able to have information of all those who wish and apply to be admitted into the Society of Christian Israelites . In necessary cases , however , those Hebrews
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FOREIGN . Religious . Calvinism Heresy at Geneva ,. It is no longer disputed that the reigning theology at Geneva is anticalvinistic . Religion is there , as elsewhere , an affair of state , and the power which was so long under the direction of Calvinism is now
turned against it . We lament this as much as any Calvinist can , being- persuaded that nothing" but persecution will enable the system to maintain its ground , and that nothing * can stop the march of Unitarianism except the circumstance of its becoming
an established , national and political religion . The Genevan Unitarians have much of that which they were taught in the school of Calviti to unlearn before they can be looked upon with entire complacency by the Unitarians of Great Britain .
The following- passage in a letter from Geneva , dated October 27 , was published in a Paris newspaper : u The Puritans assume in England an attitude not very consolatory to the friends of peace . They do not as yet form a political party , at least sensibly so * but with
their number , which increases daily , crimes multiply in an alarming * proportion . It is the consequence of their doctrine of absolute predestination . We have a professor , named Malan , who ( paid , as it is said , by the English Puritans ) is the echo of that
sect ; He frankly teaches , that the human race are invincibly . predestinated to lie , steal , violate , &tc . The authorities have auppressed the school where he instilled into youth these fine maxims , instead of instructing them in Latin ; and this man swears he is persecuted ! Happily , this
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may apply to the ecclesiastical and civil governments on the spot , > vho will oft their side offer them all possible assistance according to the orders issued on theiv behalf . The Committee find it further necessary to add , that , according * to the
true sense of the Ukase issued on the 25 th of IVfarch , the Hebrews who profess Christianity ' come only then under the name of Christian Israelites when they are admitted into the Society , according" to its regulations , and settled on the lands granted to them .
[ There are evidently errors in these translations , but not being able to collate them with the originals ^ we have suffered them to stand verbatim as we jfend them in 3 Ir . Way ' s pamphlet . Ed . ]
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dangerous fanaticism finds no partisans in any class of society . The people deride it , and are not desirous of following the doctrine of wretches whom they reasonably regard as evil-minded people . " This silly philippic has vehemently enraged the Evangelical Magazine , which is somewhat soothed by the following anodyne from the Times of November 16 :
" According to an article from Geneva , a schoolmaster there has been laid under an interdict by the magistrates , for inculcating the doctrine of absolute predestination ; and tbewriter , in reprobating the conduct of the teacher , ascribes the increase of crimes in this country to the daily
augmenting numbers of the Puritans , who believe in that doctrine . Without entering into the question of the truth of the dogma itself , vre may be permitted to observe , that the inference thus deduced from it 4 limps false behind . ' We apprehend , that 1 the
moral character of the Genevans at a period when all of them were rigid Predestinarians , would not snfter in comparison with that of their descendants . With regard to this country , it is precisely those parts of it where the popular creed is strictly Puritanic that are the least contaminated with .
vice y and in vindicating a numerous'body of our countrymen from the calumny of a foreigner , it ought not to be forgotten that tins army , praised by a Bishop of the Established Church , as the most orderly and moral ever known in England , was nn army of Puritans . "
A correspondent in the Evangelical Magazine wlio lays claim to an acquaintance with the parties concerned , gives the following information :
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778 Intelligence . — -Calvinism Heresy at Geneva ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/50/
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