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expect in rain ! If all existing lnstitutlottfl aad all public functionaries must henceforth * be sacred from question among the people ; if , at length , the free press of this country , and , with it , the freedom itself , is to be destroyed , at least' let not the heavy blow fall from your hands .
Leave It td some profligate tyrant ; leave it to a mercenary and effeminate Parliament ; a hireling army , degraded by the lash , and the readier instrument for enslaving its country ; leave it to a pampered House of Lords ; a venal House of Commons ; some vulgar minion , servant of all work to an insolent Court : some
unprincipled soldier , unknown , thank God in our times , combining the talents of a usurper with the fame of a captain ; leave to such desperate hands , and such fit tools , so horrid a work ! But you , an English Jury , parent of the press , y et supported by it , and doomed to perish the instant its health and strength are gone—lift not you against it an unnatural
hand . Prove to us that our rights are safe in your keeping ; but maintain , above all things , the stability of our institutions , by well guarding their cornerstone . Defend the Church from her worst enemies , who , to hide their own mis-deeds , would veil her solid
foundations in darkness ; and proclaim to them by your verdict of acquittal , that henceforward , as heretofore , all the recesses of the sanctuary must be visited by the continual light of day , and by that light
all its abuses be explored !"—Pp . 54 , 55 . Mr . Baron Wood charged the Jury that he was required b y law to give them his opinion , and that this was a very gross libel . Mr . Brougham reminded his lordship that he was not directed , but onlv emoowered . bv directedbut only empoweredby
, , law , to give his opinion . The jury , after several hours' deliberation , returned the following verdict : " Guilty of a libel against the clergy residing in and near the city of Durham , and the suburbs thereof "
The King ' s Bench has been moved iu arrest of judgment , and we await with impatience the result .
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700 Review . —The Necessity ami Advantage * of Lay-Preaching ,
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Art . III . — The Necessity and Advantages of Lay-Preaching among Unitarians demonstrated , and the Objections generally Urged against it , invalidated . Two Sermons , Sec .
Bv John M « . Millan . VJmo . pp . J > # * Hunter and Eaton . 1821 . rw ^ HEESJE Sermon s were pre ached to JL a congregation at Stratford , Essex * and ipse to one in Charles Street , Commercial Road , by the author , joue
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of several per «< m&-connected with business who most comoiemiablydevote their time and . talents to the cause of religion . < . The terms clergy and laity originated in a gross corruption or Christianity , and served to strengthen the corruption which-gave them birth . It is pleaded for them , however , that , like many other words of bad parentage , they have become innocent in the course of time . We confess , we look
at them with some suspicion , aad as often as we see them , think of the period when Christian teachers were masters and the great bodyof the people slaves . We grant , at the sjkme time , that there may be a convenience
in them , for the mere purposes in ten-| Tuage , if it be explained mat by < $ &rj&y is meant only those persons that devote themselves wholly to Christian teaehing , and by laity those that are hearers of their teaching . Still a word is wanted to designate those useful men that like our author unite the
characters , arm without accounting themselves of a profession , are prepared to instruct their fellow-chriBtians whenever an opportunity of being useful in this way is presented-Of the value of learning to the Christian ministry there Can be no doubt , but a minister who has learning
is not on that account a learned minister . He only is learned as a minister who fully understands Christianity , and is prepared to teach it ; and it may certainly happen that a layman without a learned education shall
surpass in these respects one brought up in the schools of the prophets . The right to teach is created by the opportunity . Any € t two or three " that agree to hear a teacher * give him by that agreement ordination . All authority in Christian , ministers beyond this appears to ua Jto be founded on tyranny or fraud . ., 1 .
For these reasons * , we coincide in Mr . M . Mi I Ian ' a views , and object as strongly as he to the terms in which our correspondent , M . S . ( Vol . XVI . p . 446 ) speaks of lay-preachers ; though we thin ^| that a less contemptuous style of remark upon the paper of M , S . ( Mr . M % Mil Ian has devoted
an Appendix of several pages to it ) would have been more worthy of » cause which reats U | ion r * HBwbn and tfe % New Te » ttt «) € nrfo / ird ^ ttpf ( Oit- '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 700, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/44/
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