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of the surrounding places vviio fo secure in what they denominate their ipi&oda&ff . Th ^ th $ r ^ lergy off tbfc Cantan de faiid , and ; of the fteigh * - bauring ^ parts of the country , flattered themselves with the vain hope that
the torment w <| uld not overflow f the boundaries of the Canton of Geneva ; an idea , by the bye , of which we were never the dupes ,- q ; nd one which indi * . cated' little sagacity or knowledge of mankind . The illusion was of short
duration : those called orthodox were treated % vith little consideration either at Geneva or Lauzanne , as they have likewise been treated in England , not * - withstanding the Thirty-nine Articles * . The Rev . George Rooke , an Episcopalian preacher at Geneva , was sub *
jected to great uneasiness in the exercise of hi 3 functions by Dr . C . Christ holm and M . Huber , of S . Gall , who styled hiinsplf Huber , of London ; they wished to reduce him to the necessity
of'giving' in his resignation that they might substitute Mr . Brazier , a man of violent zeal , who had been intro * - dueed to their notice by Mr . Zachary Maeaulay , the principal Editor of the Christian Observer . These two
Methodists , Chrisholm and Huber , who called themselves the guardians of the English Church on the Continent , failed not in their correspondence to attack Geneva , and to speak with irreverence , as well as incorrectness , of the religious principles professed there j but they were answered in a forcible manner bv the Rev . Mes&rs . Rooke
and William Jones , and by Mr . William Goxhead Marsh ; the latter replied in the following" terms to the offensive charges against Geneva , and against the mode of educating the English youth in that place : — " I cannot refrain from noticing the unjust reflections of Dr . Chrisholm oa the
pretended danger to whfch the religious principles of the English jrouth are exposed at Geneva . Being myself the father of a family , I have had occasion to ascertain that there is not any place of education in which the morals of the young people are less exposed to danger , or their religious principles less likely to be injured /'
In consequence of this judicious resistance , Mr . Rooke is still the offi > - 'dating clergyman at the English Church at Geneva , and JVfiessrs . Chris * holm and Huber quitted t the party
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£ «( d theL < &mWf in dforieefc t # eir im * proper interference had made them marked men . ' Experience has proved that all the churches ^ f the Continent are liab le to the assaults of the Methodists , whatever the faith of their pastors mav
be . The | clergy of the ? Canton de Faud 9 and M Curtat himself have to contend earnestly against them . The superintendants of the Reformed Churches of tbe departementdu Gwd
assembled numerously to assist at the dedication of some temples erected in their country , and they strongly exhorted each other to unite firmly together , and to warn their parishioners against the introduction of that
extravagant doctrine , which it had b ^ eti attempted to inculcate by obstinate perseverance , by intrigue , and by the distribution , of money , it is proved , then , that the attack on the faith of the Genevan clergy was but a feint to conceal and favour the first attempts of the sectaries , and to calm the minds
of those whom they did not intend to assail , till after they had been able to judge of the effect of their assault on one of th £ principal Reformed Churches of the Continent . They who , for various reasons , rejoiced to see Geneva engaged rath powerfiil
adversaries , were blind to the real state of things ; indifference , or some other feeling little creditable to them , prevented their seeing that this was but the opening of a vast plan which would endanger the Reformation , at a moment in which the Romish Church
seemed actuated by renewed ardour , and was resorting to its ancient and favourite . weapons . Instead of rending themselves with their own hands , the Reformed ought to link themselves in firm concord , that they may oppose a formidable front when assailed by the Jesuits and the Romish Church .
As to the repeated charges against the faith of the Genevan clergy , no one is now ignorant that the perfidious eulogies of D' Alembert were the signal for an attack , which , it must be owned , was not repelled by the pastors in a categorical and decisive manner . It is known also that J . J .
Rousseau made their evasive answer a subject both of his witticisms and grave reproaches , when , imagining he Sad jrefcsoa " tih complain of some q £ them , he wrote agmust ; all the pastors
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/5/
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