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REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.
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have said of him what every one of the hundreds that attended his funeral yes * terday expressed in substance , though few of them probably would have been equally satisfied with any verbal tribute which they themselves could have paid
to his memory . This is one of the few happy instances in which there is no occasion to seek for topics of panegyric . The only difficulty is to find language to express that combination of good qualities which constituted Dr . Lindsay ' s character . With the warmest zeal in the cause of
truth and liberty , he united the greatest candour and a perfect freedom from party spirit . Some of his closest friends were widely different from him in political and religious principles . There was a
directness in his manner of speaking which led you at first almost to apprehend bluntness , but the cordiality and generosity of his feelings presently dissipated in the breasts of his companions all sentiments except those of admiration of his frankness and
simplicity of mind , and of confidence in his kindness . But you have rendered all attempts to describe the character of my lamented friend needless , and I write merely to point out a slight error in your leading paragraph this morning , which , as one
of the sorrowing eye-witnesses of the dosing scenes of Dr . Lindsay ' s life , I trust I shall be excused from presumption in doing , especially as the mistake may have some influence upon the interests of religious liberty , to which the deceased was devoted beyond almost any man whom I ever knew .
Dr » Lindsay , then , was not " an advo * cate for Mr , Brougham ' s bill , " in the senSe in which those terms will be understood by the greater part of your readers . There are clauses in the bill to which he objected as strongly as any of his
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Address of the Quakers to the Kino , on his Accession ; with His Majesty ' s Answer . On the 3 rd of 5 month , 1620 , the following Address to the King on his accession to the Throne , was presented to him at Carlton House by
Joseph Foster , Richard Phillips , Thomas Howard , John Coleby , William Forster , Luke Howard , John Fell , John Eliot , Josiah Messer , Josiah Forster , Samuel Gurney , Jacob Hagen .
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brethren ; and with a vSew to their removal he acquiesced in the resolutions and petition against the bill , which were tinder consideration at the moment that he expired . Still , I admit that such was his generous zeal on behalf of the education of the people , and such his confidence in the power of knowledge and the energy
of truth , as to lead him to wish that Mr . Brougham ' s bill , with all its objectionable provisions , should be suffered to pass , rather than that the great work of national education should be indefinitely postponed . His argument , which none that heard it can ever forget , was , that education will sooner or later set the public mind right on every great question ,
and that one of its effects will be to correct the errors of any particular plan of education itself : and nearly his last words were a remarkably strong declaration ( strong even for him who never spoke feebly upon the subject ) of his abhorrence of all interference with the rights of conscience , and of all domination of religious party .
This explanation appears to me to be due both to the memory of Dr . Lindsay and to the public . I will add only , that , in the discussion in question , nothing passed on the part either of my Reverend friend , or of any of his brethren , that was not respectful , courteous and friendly . When
our feenngshad recovered from the shock Occasioned by his death , we naturally endeavoured to call to mind all that had been said ; and it was matter of mutual congratulation that not a sfhgle expression had been uttered Munich any one could wish to have recalled or altered . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , ROBERT ASPLAND . Hackney , Feb . 26 .
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To George the Fourth , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , and the dominions thereto belonging . May it please the King ! We , thy dutiful subjects , of the Society of Friends , commonly called Quakers , are anxious to avail ourselves of the occasion
of thy accession to the throne , to renew the testimony of a faithful attachment to our King . In thus conveying an assurance o ( sincere obedience , on the part of a Christian people , we desire permission also to
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184 Register of JSbctetiattioid Document * .
Register Of Ecclesiastical Documents.
REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/56/
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