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REVIEW. *< Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Popk.
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a L—The Edinburgh Review * No . LXIX . March , 1821 . TH IS Journal having placed our Repository at the head of one of its articles , we return the compliment ,
in order to take the opportunity of making a few extracts from two of the papers in the number above designated , with some remarks upon the interesting subjects to which they refer . The first article to which we allude
is entitled " Dissenters' Marriages /' and the work professed to be reviewed is our XlVth Volume . The subject really is the Unitarian Marriage Bill :
the amended petition relating to which is here quoted [ Mon . Repos . XIV . 198 ] , as is also Mr . Dillon ' s * account of his marriage-protest ( XIV . 179—181 ) . Marriage and mirth are near akin : we must not therefore blame
the Reviewer for being a little jocose , especially as he has more than made amends for his levities by asserting ably and boldly the great and generous principles of religious liberty . He opens his paper with a prediction , exceedingly startling to orthodox
Churchmen : " Strange as the assertion may appear to many Clergymen of that Establishment , the English Church is mortal ; and ages hence , though the rivers and the hills remain , there may be no Bishops
and no Deans . Now , the receipt we would propose for the prolongation of the existence of this venerable system , is the diminution of needless hostility , a display of good humour , liberality and condescension , and an habit of giving
way in trifles , in order to preserve Essentials . Every nation of Europe has its ecclesiastical Establishment , to the support of which the community at large contribute . This is all very well ; we quarrel with nothing of this kind . But , the Establishment once made and well
provided for , any exclusive privilege conferred upon its members is mere mono-* Our worthy « Free-thinking Christian" correspondent is described by the Heviewer as « an Unitarian Minister /'
a character which we believe Mr . Dillon will be well-pleased that we should say does not belong to him .
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poly and oppression ; against such unjust pretensions of Establishments , we have always contended ; they are not relfgiou , but greediness and insolence wrapt up in a surplice . "—Pp . 62 , 63 .
The Reviewer repeats from us , that " before the Marriage-Act , the marriage of Dissenters , in the face of their own congregation , was good in law , *' and he states , very correctly the claim of the Unitarian Dissenters for relief . Referring to the Bill which was once read in the House of Commons , he
says , tc If this bill passes ( and we sincerely hope it may pass ) , the provisions of the bill should be to this effect . The Dissenter should lodge his petition with the clergyman of the parish , stating his dissent from the doctrines of the Church
his desire to be excused from assisting at the marriage-service , and his intention to appear at the altar on the hour pointed out by the clergyman , with the documents and sureties required by the act , in order
to the registration of his marriage ; which petition shall be read in church , and alluded to in the register as the cause of the omission of the marriage-service ;—and Dissenters' marriages so performed shall be good in . law .
"This we consider to be a far better arrangement than any request to omit parts of the service . To say , * Don't pray with us at all , we do not require your spiritual assistance , ' may not be
unreasonable language from Dissentera to the Church ; but to say , c We will tell you which of your prayers you may omit , and which you may use , ' is bad taste , and not suitable to the state of the parties . "—Pp . 65 , 66 .
Beggars must not be choosers ; and if the Unitarians have ventured to point out the mode of relief , it has been only to shew that their object was practicable . They have no fondness for one mode of relief in preference to another . Ail that they ask is to be tolerated in the dissent from
Trinitarian worship ; and in any measure for providing such toleration that the Leg islature shall enact they will cheerfully acquiesce . The method pointed oht by their Bill appeared to them less likely to offend the Church than any other , since it secures to the clergy
Review. *≪ Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."—Popk.
REVIEW . *< Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Popk .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/41/
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