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reason when temperately and respectfully urged ; and his knowledge , his talents , and his zeal in the cause of education , certainly demand respect . I am aware , indeed , that if the Bill were to be modified so far even as is
here suggested , it might have to encounter the opposition of the church clergy ; but if it failed through their hostility , I should be better pleased , than to see it abandoned in consequence of Dissenting opposition . Should Mr . Brougham now withdraw the Bill , the odium of its failure will rest with the
Dissenters . It is a hard matter to please every body . Mr . Brougham , notwithstanding the pains he has taken to make his Bill acceptable to the church , has not entirely succeeded , as appears , indeed , by the list of new publications in the last number of your Repository ; where is announced " A Letter to a
Member of Parliament , shewing ( in these Days of Infidelity and Sedition ) the serious and dangerous Effects of the British and Foreign School , and of Mr . Brougham ' s Bill ( now pending ) for the General Education of the Poor . B y Richard Lloyd , A . M ., Rector of St . Dunstan ' s in the West /'
Yet to Mr . Lloyd and such as he , of whom I fear there are too many , does the Bill commit the general direction and entire superintendence of public education , in their respective parishes . It is lamentable to see to what lengths the love of spiritual tyranny is capable
of proceeding . There are some men who would bring back , if they could , the ignorance and darkness of the middle ages , in order that the dominion of the Church might be reinstated in the plenitude of its power . T . F .
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Sir , PERCEIVE , by a widely-circulated official letter , that a sort of secular schism has crept into the Dissenting churches . The letter in question is from the Secretary of the Independent Ministers in London , who denominate themselves , " The Congregational Board . " It is customary for country
congregations of the same faith and order who stand in need of metropolitan succours for rebuilding or repairing their places of worship , to apply for the sapction of this " Board / ' to what is called their " Caae , " having
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obtained which , the suitors proceed with more certainty of success to the doors of the rich brethren . From the Circular I conclude that it is usual to submit to the " Board" a copy of the Trust-Deed of any meeting-house , on behalf of which application is made . In a recent instance the " Board **
refused their licence to a " Case , " on account of the Trust-Deed providing that the minister should be chosen jointly by the majority of the communicants and the Trustees for the time 1
being ; that the minister should execute to the Trustees for the time being ' a Bond with sufficient sureties to resign when called upon so to do by the Trustees and the majority of the communicants ; and that the minister ' s
salary should be fixed and regulated by the Trustees and Deacons . The " Board" allege , that the demand of «* It 4 ~\ . w-v . / -I <• / - » mm « -k Vfc •• » - »^ -v wv J- * . * - » * - % . m > - ± wu- « > -v -wh -4- * -v # - 4- \~* . j- « bond is impeachment of the
a " an honour and Christian integrity , of the minister ; " and they pronounce the other clauses to be " sl complete
sacrifice of the principles of Congregational Dissenters . " Bonds of Resignation are , I believe , held illegal in the Church of England , and , indeed , accounted Simoniacal :
but something may be said on their behalf among Dissenters , since not a few cases have been seen amongst them of incumbents persisting to keep their livings in defiance of their congregations . And , according to the recently declared law , when inducted , they are , like the regular clergy , vested in a life-right .
The choice of a minister would seem to lie properly in the body of the subscribers to his support : but the communicants may not be subscribers ; I am informed that in many congregations the chief pecuniary support is derived from non-communicants : now ,
if this be the case , they having no suffrages , ought in reason to be represented by the Trustees . And there being two distinct bodies of electors is the only security against a precipitate and imprudent choice . What " Congregational principles , "
with respect to clerical salaries , are , I , not having had the privilege of being brought up among persons holding them , know not : but these salaries must be rated by some fixed authority the communicants are not always competent , and are besides too numerous
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Innovations amongst Dissenters . 157
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/29/
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