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Sir , October 16 , 1820 , 1 JIOPE < your Correspondent , an * Unitarian Traveller /* will coritinue his remarks , which will afford much information as to the state of Unitarianism to us who tarry at home ;
but I beg a small space in your columns in answer to his assertion , ( p . 5 $ 2 , ) that the preset languid state ^ of the Unitarian congregation at Ipswich is in part owing to the want Of z 6 al and judgment of " a distinguished Unitarian Minister" whilst pastor of
that Society . The correction of this error may , 5 erhap s , be of service to the Unitarian Vaveller in guarding him against similar oneis , owing to the partial information he may obtain upon his short visits to other places . I was , at the time he speaks of ,
( 15 years since , ) a resident in Ipswich and a member of that congregation , and can assure him that " the zeal and judgment" of Dr . Thomas Rees , was eminently successful in raising that very Society from a previously " cold and languid state" to great respectability , both in numbers and the station in society of its members . His zeal in
preaching what we consider as the great truths of Christianity , and his manners and acquirements as a gentleman , causing him to be regarded with esteem by all classes in the town and neighbourhood , led many to inquire into the reasons of our belief , who would otherwise most probably never have turned th ^ ir attention to it .
Never was a minister more esteemed aiid beloved by his . people , and I believe that ' there was not a single individual who did not sincerely regret his resignation . If the Unitarian Traveller will inquire upon his next
journey , he will learn that the present low state of the interest there , is in no way whatever to be attiibute ^ jH ; ariy want of zeal or j $$$ a \ £ fLi in ' Ejft ¦* TWnas Rees , or directly or / taditetftly to him in wf way , but : that ] h ha ? been occasioned by circub ^ s ^ ttt * es which have taken place entirely since his departure , and whicfi , in T aH human ' probability , : % ^ * mfcfei ^ i ^ ; arid ' ' Esteem Which all"irabferor Wd the honour or
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cutt will join in his encomium of that excellent man . < . ; V ¦ G .
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS ANI > REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GWSBTRAIj READING .
No . CCCLXXI . Chemistry a Corrective of Pride ?¦ We know that religion has , on many occasions , been a corrective of pride ^ but never , till we perused the following anecdote , did we imagine that the
abstract science of Chemistry might be applied to that moral purpose : — " In Germany , the rage for Chemistly extends as rapidly as liberal ideas . The following anecaote proved the truth of this observation . A nobleman of a
very ancient family received lessons at Berlin from the celebrated Klaproth , whose recent death has proved so great a loss to the sciences . One day , as he was proceeding to the laboratory of the philosopher , his carriage overturned , and he and his coachman were so
severely bruised , that they were under the necessity of being bled . The noble German immediately conceived the idea of profiting by this accident , to discover whether the blood of a
gentleman differed m any way from that of a common person . He sent the produce of the two bleedings in separate vessels to Klaprotl * , and requested Mm to make a comparative analysis of them . The skilful chemist , after the
most scrupulous attention , found that each blood contained the same quantity bf iron , lime , magnesia , phosphate of lime , alkumen , muriat of potash and soda , sub-carbonate of soda , sulfate of potash , extractive , mucous matter , aiM water . The . quantity < of water was two hundredth parts greater in the blood of the nobleman than in
that of his coachman . This might have been an advantage to th £ latter , had so slight a difference been worthy consideration . It may titejrefbre be presumed that the blood of a nobleman and that of a plebeian Qre ^ hysically and chemically identical * The nobleman , who vea # delighted with this result , transmitted a cfepy o £ fitfhft taalysis to his son s tutor ; in order that irac
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614 Mis-statement of the" Unitarian Traveller :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1820, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2493/page/50/
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