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that we feel the weight of a large debt of gratitude for his disinterested and gratuitous ministrations among us during a
period of nearly 13 years . That , under the influence of these sentiments , we offer him our most respectful and sincere thanks , accompanied by our warmest wishes for his present welfare and future happiness .
That a copy of these Resolutions , attested by the Chairman and Secretary , be presented to Mr . Eddowes , and that Mr . William Hulings and Mr . Guy Bryan be a committee for that purpose . True extract from the minutes . ( Signed ) JOHN VAUGHAN , Chairman . Wm . Turner , Secretary .
In his reply , Mr . E . expressed his deep sense of the kindness of the Society in passing these Resolutions , and his obligations for the politeness of the gentlemen who presented them ; bat that , being as little expected as merited , he had been prepared to find his only reward in the consciousness of having discharged the duty , however imperfectly , to the best of his ability .
Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia . " Dr . M has retired from his ministerial office at New York , having been chosen President of Carlisle College , Pennsylvania . In his farewell Sermon
to his flock , he took occasion to pour forth a torrent of the most bitter invectives against the Unitarians , imprecating curses upon , and consigning them to damnation , although he said that their iloctrine was too coarse and abominable
for hell itself . The Sermon being pruned , came under review by Mr . Walsh , who publishes a daily paper in Philadelphia . He , though a Catholic , in an article headed ' / fi-tolerance , warmly reprobated this unchristian and illiberal conduct of the Doctor ' s , and very handsomely did justice to
the character of Unitarians as a body , mentioning an individual among tltem as the foremost in every plan of public benevolence and utility . The Sermon ban been remarked upon by one of the New York Unitarian congregation , and Mr , Taylor has taken the occasion to defend the
cause before a numerous audience at our regular evening service , so that we seem in a way more than ever to attract the ' public notice . Indeed , the Presbyterian clergy do all they can to help us ; they cannot refrain from venting their spleen in sermons and publications . Dr . , formerly of New York , but now of Princeton College , bore from the castigation
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given him by Mr . Sparttes , in his little periodical publication , has been attac&W us in a style of asperity worSe ( some saJi than Dr . M . himself . y ; " There is a strong movement among the Catholics about the choice of a priest for St . Mary ' s—the clergy on one side
and the people on the other contending for the right of appointment . Some personal violence has been used , and both parties are resorting to the law for the confirmation of their claims . These things seem to portend a revolution in favour of religious liberty , in the end no less successful than that which has given us the full enjoyment of our civil ri ghts . "
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268 On the supposed Be « th bf Moses .
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Ross , Sin , Jpril 10 , 1822 . SEND you a few remarks on the I supposed death of Moses . In Deut . xxxiv . 5 , it is said , " So Moses the servant of the Lord died . " &c .:
Dr . Geddes observes on this passage , ( see Crit . Remarks , p . 473 , ) that * not only many Jews , but some good Christian fathers , think that he died not , but was snatched up to heaven alive . " This , however , he says , "is not the common opinion of modem commentators ; " himself amongst the rest , I should think from his manner
of stating * this opinion , and asking the question , who wrote the account of the death of Moses and of his burial ? 4 It is clear , however , " he adds , " that it must have been written after , and some considerable time after Moses ,
from this expression , unto this day no man hnoweth aught of his sepulchre . " Now , from the proncness of the Iraelitish nation to idolatry , of which Moses has given us many instances , it might be concluded , that this concealment of his death , if it
indeed took place , and the place of his burial , was intended to prevent the Jews from deifying their great leg islator , after the manner of the Heathen nations . And this might have been the case , had they known of his bein £ translated alive to heaven , i" their
then circumstances . Now the Scriptures of the New Testament have revealed this mystery to us Christians . The gospel , I say , informs us that Moses , as well as Elijah , was translated from earth to heaven without undergoing the law o our nature . Indeed , the historian infers us much when he informs \ # ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/12/
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