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all things fteCess&fy to direct Christi&ss in . the path of salvation . " There is no infallibility In any man , or body of men on earth ; and as it is the business of church-officers merely to declare the counsel of God , as set forth in the Scriptures , and
to enforce the law of the Gospel by spiritual sanctions , so the Lord Jesus Christ has not empowered any man , or body of men , to decree rites and ceremonies , to exercise authority in matters of faith , or to inflict temporal
penalties for offences against the order and discipline of the Church . " Though it be the duty of all to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints , yet Christians are not permitted to judg-e , condemn ,
or persecute one another , on account of doctrines , or modes of worship and church government . " These propositions I quote from the work open before me , and I should
conceive that they must satisfy " Junior , " . * ' No Presbyterian / ' and every impartial person , that what I have stated with respect to Irish Presbyterianisni , is just and true ; " that its Synods are bonds of union and Christian
association ; tribunals for the preservation of the temporal funds and property of the Presbyterian congregations , and for the settlement of any disputes which may possibly arise between ministers and people , and by no means , boards of eontroul over religious opinions and worship . "
I beg pardon , Sir , for having again obtruded myself upon you and the readers of your very valuable work . My sole end in so doing , is to remove , by fair representation , what seems to
me to be misconception . Heartily wishing the wider diffusion of the Monthly Repository , I remain , Sir , your obedient Servant , SENIOR .
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Commemoration of the First Settlement of New England . THE history of the United States of America will be better known to posterity than that of any country ,
ancient or modern . Already , the Americana are studious and careful of th ^ ir Antiquities . If the Europ <^ m smile at this word , thus applied , tet him reifiemtier that the time will come when it * use will be no longer ones-
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t Krttahle , and whet * ike inquiries of the Transatlantic antiquaries will fo > fa < / litateri and amply reWartted by fa , pious and patriotic labours of their fathers bow existing ' . Amongst other Amerk'&n associa ^ tiona for cultivating the knowledge © f American
History , is 77 ie Pi&rm Society , who are accustomed yearly to visit Plymouth , i » New Enoiamf the landing-place of the first En ' glish Puritan Emigrants , on the anni ver ^ ary of the day of the landing viz Dec . 22 . This celebration was begun in the year 1769 , and hag been kept up with some intermissions to the present time ; consisting sometimes of a religious service , and sometimes of an oration by a layman . There is now lying before us , "A Discourse delivered at Plymouth , Dec . 22 , 1820 , in Commemoration of the First
Settlement of New England : by ( the Hon ) Daniel Webster / ' This was a great day for the occasion , being the completion of the geeond century from the emigration . The orator was
wisely selected . We have seldom read a more admirable discourse . The style of the speaker , indeed , is not always perspicuous , and betrays occasionally , that want of pure taste and of the genuine English idiom
which is commonly found in orators declaiming in English out of England , and not ttnfrequenfcly in Bag-land : but th « speech contains passages of true eloquence , and breathes throughout the mind of a scholar , the heart
of a philanthropist and the spirit of an enlightened Christian . Warmed and possessed by his subject , Mr . Webster says finely , in one of the opening passages of his Discourse , ** There is a local feeling , connected with this occasion , too strong to be
resisted ; a Sort of genius of the place , which inspires , and awes us . We feel that we are otl the spot where the first scelie of our history was laid ; where &e hearths and altars of New England were first placed ; where Christianity and civilization and letters made their first
lodgment , in a vaat extent of country , covered with a wilderness and peopled by roring barbarians . We are here , at the season of the year at which the etent took place . ' Hie ixnagihatiort irresistibly and rapfcrty draws wotitift tis Hie principal fcahift ?* aftd the Vehdlfig characters m thfc origitra ! scene . Wfe enst mir eyes
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340 - Commemoration of tk 4 FirU SettfemeiUvf New England .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/20/
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