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is not easy to say whether we should iiiost wonder at its extreme absurdity and inconsistency with itself , or detest its domineering and papistical spirit . 41 About the time when these measures were adopted , M . Malan wns deprived of his school , and virtually , if not directly ,
excluded from the pulpits of the city and canton . My information does not enable me to say whether he joined the worshiping " assemblies of the small Church , which was formed in 1817 , at Geneva , on congregational principles : but I have learned ,
from a respected friend , ( who is just returned from a long- sojourn in France , occasioned by the afflictive state of his health , ) that M . Malan has signed the Regulation , putting" in at the same time a kind of protest or declaration of the sense in which he
makes the engagement , and that he is , in consequence , restored to the exercise of his ministry in the Established Church . 6 i However we may lament the want of fortitude in this young * minister , and the submission to which he has heen driven , I make no doubt , by incessant persuasions , and by the pressure of personal and
domestic distress : one thing * is very fairly to be inferred from the fact of his restoration , iiamely , the total falsehood of the assertions published in the newspapers with regard to his doctrine , or his moral character , or his being * supported by any * English Puritans . * u It will afford pleasure to your readers
to learn , that , after the shameful outrages < A ^ hich the newly-forrned church at Geneva suffered in July last , and of which an account lias been given in the Evangelical Magazine , they have been enabled to resume their religious meetings in another place , which , though not so large or commodious as they wish , is more so than that which they before occupied . "
We agree with Dr . Smith in condemning the conduct of the Genevese Pastors : but their error results , as he must allow , not from their theology , but from their considering the Church and State as in alliance . Grant them the principle of a Church Establishment by law , and all 4 hat they have done is justifiable . Mons . Malan and his little party would , no doubt , take the same course with their adversaries
if they were to become the majority . At present , Unitarianism is orthodoxy and Calvinism hevesy at Geneva : and as long as these ? arrogant distinctions are preserved ! in the werld , they will be bandied about just as power changes hands . —An English " Evangelical" preacher , who is aecustotae 4 to speak of Unitarian heretics with
hatted and scorn , must feel oddly on visiting Qttweva , where Calvitii&tn was o > Ytee enthroned , to find himself labouring under tbe odium of heresy , and dealt with less taiufet f y titan 1 * £ ffas been accustomed to
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deal with heretics at bouse . Dr . Watts , in his Logic , wisely recommends travelling as the cure for bigotry .
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780 Intelligent . ^—Jteligtom Liberty in France *
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Important Decision in favour of Re * ligious Liberty in France . We inserted p . 404 , under the title of " Persecution of the French Protestants , " an account of the fining of a deacon of the church of Bourdeaux , for not having decorated his house with the usual
bailoring's during the idolatrous procession of the host . An appeal from the sentence was made to a higher tribunal at Paris , and we have very great satisfaction in stating the result in an article from tfee French papers .
" Court of Cassation . — Criminal Section , Nov . 20 Can a citizen be compelled to hang out tapestry on the front of his house , while the external ceremonies of the Catholic worship are performing ? 66 Siich was the question brought before the Court , by an appeal from the Sieur Romanj a Protestant , against a judgment of the Correctional Tribunal of Police of
Gap , which condemned him to a fine of 6 francs for not having obeyed an edict of the Mayor of the town of Lourmarin , ordering the inhabitants of that town to cover the fronts of their houses , in those streets through which the Holy Sacrament might pass , during the procession of the FSte Dieu .
. "M . Odilon Barrol , Counsel for M . Roman , entered into a detailed argument in support of the appeal . He observed that the constituent assembly , and , after it , all other constituted authorities , had proclaimed the principle of religious freedom ; and had completely separated questions
of religion from those connected with civil and political rights . The concordat of 1801 , with the view of maintaining a perfect equality between the Roman Catholic religion and other systems of religion , went so far as lo prohibit the
celebration of any ceremony out of churches , in towns in which there were temples destined for public worship . The charter had made no change in these principles * on the contrary , it had confirmed them , by proclaiming anew , that every citizen is free with regard to his worship , ami that all religions are equally " protected .
u We therefore still live under the influence of the princijpl'e rendered sacred by the Constituent Assembly 5 a principle which places a man ' s religion out of the jurisdiction of the law . When the law is
neutral , the civil authority must necessarily be the same , and cannot interfere with different religions , except to give them equal protection . It eanfrot , Vkere-Tore , associate itself tvith the bel ^ rfroifift * of any one particular ' VYorsM ' n ? fcfrtf * & * &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 780, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/52/
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