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    He procured the services of some young men who were candidates , during this absence . On his return he resumed his functions , preached in his church once in a fortnight , and in addition to the religious instruction which he gave at the Lyceum , he commenced there a course of instruction on the

    German language and literature . In 1808 , M , Goepp undertook to give a course on the French language at the Gymnasium , in which his own literary studies had begun , and likeat

    wise to ^ upenntend the students the College of St . Thomas . He was proposed for the office of professor to the Protestant Faculty of Theology which had just been instituted at Strasburg ; at the same time , however , he received

    an invitation to the Consistorial Church at Paris , recently granted by the Government to the Christians cf the Augsburgh Confession resident in the capital . This call he obeyed , and commenced his new ministry in the

    month of November , 1809 . M . Goepp and his colleague , M . Boissard , arrived at Paris at the same time ; their functions are the same ; and their remuneration equal . Their community ,

    consisting of about ten thousand souls , dispersed through all parts of the vast capital , and even in the neighbouring departments , give them considerable

    occupation . In 1811 , M . Goepp made a journey into his own country for the purpose of marrying a young lady who had been formerly his pupil and catechumen ; this union would be perfectly happy but for the afflicting circumstance of the loss of two sons

    successively : a third remains to them , whose X > reservation they implore of the Almighty . M . Goepp , as has been said , at an earl y age displayed his talent for

    poetical composition : various detached pieces from his pen have appeared in the German language , the greater part of which are of a moral and religious nature . Besides the two works before

    mentioned , composed with the assistance of his colleague ,-he has published , at different times , several funeral sermons , some in German and some in French . When about to quit his parishioners at Strasburg , he printed a collection of his sermons at their request . In 1814 , he published a discourse , preached on occasion of the

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    thanksgiving for the establishment of peace , and in commemoration of the death of Louis XVI . In this serm on he investigates the origin of those nm fortunes which have so long oppressed France and the whole of Europe , endeavouring at the same time to point out their remedy .

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    270 On the Punishment of Carlile .

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    IN your Number for October 1819 ( XIV . 645 , 646 , ) you declared i ( as your steady conviction , that pains and penalties ought not to be attached to unbelief or misbelief , that such treatment of unbelievers is inconsistent

    with the principles of natural right and of religious liberty , that truth suffers by it , and that it is especially adverse to the mild and generous principles of the Founder of our faith . Now , Sir , I do not at all controvert the truth of this opinion , but I say that it has no application to the prosecution

    of Carlile or of those in the same predicament . AH men ought to be at liberty to form their own opinions , and it is folly to attempt to controul them . I go further , and assert that they ought , in a grave and modest manner , to be suffered to advance their

    notions , and to support them with argument ; and they have always in my time been free to write and argue as they pleased . Thus Hume and Gibbon and others have , in learned and philosophical writings , expressed or intimated their disbelief of

    Christianity without being molested with legal prosecutions , and even by those who most differed from them on this important subject , have been allowed great merit and eminent distinction as historians . The works of these

    authors were addressed to the intelligent and learned , and they were examined and answered by several able writers in the manner they deserved . But the offence taken at Mr . Carlile is very different ; he was not prosecuted for any opinions he held , and so he was told by the Lord

    Chief-Justice before whom he was tried ; thus he might have held them in perfect safety , and even written upon them m a decent and respectful manner . ^ for this was he prosecuted , but for contumeliousl y reviling C hristianity , the religion of his country , and for industriously vending and circulating cheap and short triacts destitute of argument and of common decency , &ul

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/14/