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    the beginning of this letter the Doctor sets in opposition to Sulpicius . RICHARD MARTIN . p . S . If you think proper to insert this letter in the Repository , I shall soon forward another relating to Dr . P . ' s History of Opinions among the Primitive Gentile Christians .

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    prompted the thought , how useful to such places ; would it prove were the ministerial character , in a degree , to be blended with the medical one . The indispositions to which humanity is subject , would derive additional alleviation , could the minister , whilst administering comfort to the depressed mind , likewise impart , the usual remedies for the afflicted , diseased body . Not with a view to make the medical

    knowledge subservient to the pecuniary advantage of the village minister , ( though in neighbourhoods where the income is so small that it can hardly maintain one , there might be occasional trifling assistance obtained from the more affluent , in consideration of additional attendance on themselves when in

    ill health , and particularly in default of a medical resident , which in the country is not uncommon , ) but where the muchlamented fact exists , that in some very distressed neighbourhoods many , perish for lack of medical , timely advice , through the inability to pay for it . What balms of consolation would arise

    to an anxious minister in a village or hamlet , to be enabled to prescribe , with the confidence and ability of a physician , for the relief of the body as well as for the troubled mind , may be more easily conceived than described .

    Competent ministers in places to which I . refer , would be treasures greater than gold , and would be resembling , indeed , their great Master , who went about continually doing good to the souls and bodies of men .

    Objections may be stated to this union of characters , ( but of less weight as it applies to distant parts of the country , and who can tell where he will be situated as a minister ?) but , on some consideration , I think the advantages preponderate . Under this conviction , permit me to suggest , that the students designed for the ministry amongst the Unitarians should likewise study medicine . Even as fathers of families

    hereafter , in remote places , they would find it conducive to their own and neighbours' comforts ; but as connected with the poor , the diseased and the distressed of their future congregation

    or village , they would reap , in the advice or assistance- given , a harvest of consolation , inexpressibly delightful and abundantly useful . Such instruction and course of lectures might be ,

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    On Students for the Ministry learning- the Medical Art . 407

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    Brighton , Sir , June 21 , 1821 . npIHE accounts riven in the Repo-JL sitory of the Unitarian congregations by an Unitarian Traveller were amusing , but he appears to have fallen into some mistakes ; and really it is

    not very surprising that mistakes should occur relative to the state of our congregations , when our chapels are hardly discoverable ; many of them being in dark alleys or by-places . I have often wished that the words

    " Unitarian Chapel" were affixed to them all . This , I believe , some old Unitarians dislike ; but I expected to find the " new Unitarians" approve the plan . Passing through Brighton , where I had heard that a famous chapel had been erected , I looked for a building with the above description and found none : but I found one with a Greek

    inscription , which , however correct , could not , I thought , benefit the unlearned inquirer . To try the experiment I asked the coachman , what that

    chapel was . He said it was built by a new party of Christians , whose name he forgot ; but it began with an M . A little way on the road he observed , he recollected ** what those folks were

    called , " it was Monotheom ; but that he knew nothing about them . A gentleman behind us -said they were an odd set ; that they did not believe , as he was told , in Christ , or in the Devil ,

    or angels , or future punishment : to which the coachman rejoined , he had heard they were very blasphemious * Here the conversation dropped , but I beg to submit to you , Mr . Editor , and to your intelligent readers , whether this and all other Monotheon chapels should not be intelligibly described . NO GRECIAN .

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    ^ m , June 30 , 1821 . HE experience of a twelve years ' Tresidence in a very populous , but extremel y poor neighbourhood , has

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/27/