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thai before it cm hs vrnged ivith effect against Chwtitftt&y , two difficult 4 juc 8 * tions tow * be decided , Rrst , As evil must be supposed to attend every thing which passes ( ttoongh the hands of such aa imperfect creature as man ;
whjat halaace erf good may reasonably be expected from a divine twelatioa > Secondly , What is the precise balance between the good which has resulted from Christianity and the evil to which it has incidentally given rise ?
I submit these reflections to your readers , trusting that they are just in the main , and that they may be of some service to the impartial inquirer in enabling him to decide upon the evidences of a religion which has been justly characterized as the best gift of God to man . E . COGAN .
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y arifed duty .. A Society which fe h& tended in its efforts to ease this excruciating feeling , has high claims on the benevolent heart , considered merely as such , but Protestant Dissenters seein
almost bound in duty to support it . The widows and orphans t > f those who have died in their service , have strong appeals to make to their justice , as well as to their Christian philanthropy , for preservation a ^ ad su pport .
I was not aware till the summer of 1817 , that the Society about which I am writing was deficient in funds . I found this to be the case from a letter which Mr . Ray , of Sudbury , read to a meeting of gentlemen at Stowmarket , assembled to support a county Society with somewhat similar views . This
Society I should have joined had I not left the county of Suffolk , since which I considered that the funds of the London Society must have improved , as I have had no personal application made to me , as a minister , to interest myself in their augmentation . Now
this appears , Sir , to me to be the proper mode for the managers of the London Society to adopt . Let them send circulars , containing an account of their funds and claims , to every minister- and I I should hooe . for the ministerand should hopefor the
, , honour and Christian feeling of Protestant Dissenters , such an appeal would not be made in vain . Assuming that the statement in your last number , from the pen of the late excellent Mr .
Howe , [ XV . 7 ^ 2—725 , 3 is correct , that in 1815 there were 124 cohgr e ^ gational collections , and but 12 in 1820 * the appeal to the generosity and justice of our body , which . I am reeo mm ending ,
cannot , I imagine , have been made ; and , without having * so done , I must confess , had I belonged to that Society * I should kiwe somewhat blamed the managers for selling their lunded property to meet their claims ; this , I think , should have been their dernier resource . Not
being aware of their greai want * , I have not hitherto supported this Institution , but I shftU be happy to aid it henceforth to the be » t of my power , and with this feeling beg to throw out the hint of the propriety of appealing to the great body of Dissenters on the subject . J . FULLAGAR .
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ChichesteTj Sir , January A 9 1821 . OF all the magnificent institutions for charitable purposes which
grace our country , not one appears to me of more importance than is that for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Dissenting Ministers . Without wishing improperly to magnify the
office of a Dissenting Minister , it may fairly be asserted , that , with very few exceptions , it is , in a worldly point of view , one of considerable sacrifice . The talents devoted to a critical under *
standing of the Scriptures , and the time occupied in discharging the various duties of their profession , would , in any other occupation , yield an infinitely greater advantage . The indivi * duals who engage ia this pursuit , relinquish many worldl y emoluments ; but not only so , their families are involved in their determination .
Ministers have not oaly to bear the " proud man ' s contumel y / 1 iaciuding that of some o £ their clerical brethren of the Establishment , under which the testimony of conscience may be supposed to be an adequate support , Uut they have no opportunity for providing
for t lxei * f ^ mUfes * and must frequently be assured of leaving tjiena at their death in » circurajM ### e $ of d # ep distress . Often must their affection , wlien they reflect oik this reaid * of their labours , cause them a severe pang- ; i « might be expected to be soflfteientu to . urnnan thea ^ awl to mi&fc them for their
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/23/
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