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    my pride and passions the sublime faculties they ( like me ) have received from ' the Father of lights . ' Yet intolerance has been called a necessary evil . How necessary ? Is not every man to answer for the talents he has

    received , and to be judged according to the advantages fee has possessed ? Will you take its consequences for its justification ? Short and shameful are its triumphs . It receives no involuntary tributes , for it is a tyrant that is abandoned as soon as he hides his

    head . Would you be gratified with false and hollow homages , and will you dare insist on their being offered to God ? Intolerance makes no real proselytes , irler most obedient slaves are hypocrites and liars . Would you have such to honour the tr iumphs of

    the religion of Jesus ? Mistaken men Study his spirit , and you will find that you are the worst of apostates . And you would invite others to follow the steps of him you call your Master , by trampling on his holy laws ? The gospel will neither have slaves nor tyrants for its advocates . It is founded

    on the spirit of liberty . Freely as we have received from it the blessings of freedom , freely and generously we are bound to give . Let our candour , our icharity , be the first proof of our faith . It is better—it is mightier than the strong arm of power /* J . B .

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    York , Sir , JT > ecember 9 , 1819 . IT gave me great . pleasure to see Mr . Channing ' s excellent discourse , preached at Baltimore on the 5 th of May last , reprinted at Liverpool , and , as I think it may be interesting to some of your -readers to know the

    circumstances out of which it took its rise , I shaM transcribe the following particulars from my friend Dr . H ., of Dorchester , w M * which he favoured me a few weeks ago : " Of the progress of religion , of freedom of inquiry , and of literature , I could give you interesting details ,

    but they would fill a volume rather than a letter . Some particulars you will glean from the publications that accompan y this . Among them the sermon of Mi \ Ohanning ^ I know will attract your fi # st attention ; because his name arid fame are already familiar to you i but it ist jaeocskuy to tgirce you a

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    brief history of the occasion on which the sermon was delivered . It was preached at Baltimore , the capital of Maryland , and , next to New Yorlt * the largest commercial town in the United States . Some of the most respectable and opulent inhabitants of that place ,

    went from New England , and carried with them an attachment to CangregatioMdism , or Independent churchgovernment ; whereas all the churches there are either Presbyterian or Episcopalian , and of course highly Calvinistic and Trinitarian in their * creed .

    Several of the ministers of our * vicinity , in their journey ings to visit Washington City , and see Congress in its sessions , stopt at Baltimore . The New England inhabitants wished to hear them preach ; but the Presbyterians would not , and the Episcopalians could not , invite

    them into their pulpits . This led the Congregationalists to unite in erecting a place of worship for themselves , and they have built a most magnificent one . They then sent to our university for ; a preacher , and obtained Mr . Sparks , one of the tutors , a gentleman of superior talents . At his ordination Mr .

    Channing ' s Sermon was delivered . It has passed through two large editions in Baltimore , ( eight hundred copies of the first , it has been said , were taken up on the day of its publication , ) and two editions have been printed in Boston . It is eagerly read , and the

    impression which it has made , and is making , is very great /' " On Mr . Channing ' s return from Baltimore , he was urged to preach at New York , not by the clergymen of

    the city , for their pulpits are not open to such as he , but by distinguished individuals , who obtained for him the Medical Hall : and on the following week two meetings were held of considerable numbers , to take measures for

    collecting a society , and erecting a house for public * worishiji {> , and an invitation has b ^ en forwarded to us for a preacher 3 in consequence of wliich Mr . Ware , omie of the most esteemed / Boston minisfcen * , has go ^ e on , to J ^ . ew York to preach , and to assi ^ fc-t hem , in the furtheranee of their ; enlightened

    purposes / ' '• . ;« . ;¦ I have siQce lifeard' | that ' the sensation occasioned % 3 Mjr . Ohaimi | ig ? s 3 epqaoii , has raised / up ? a . ppw $ rfyl . pppoq ^ pt . iix support of \ the oith ^ OK . ite . i 11 Professor Stuart , of ^ e ^ 4 p ^( Tb ^ -

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    ! & Mrs . Cappe on Uniturimiism in America .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1820, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2484/page/14/