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- , Among religious Associations , ( hose called the Bible Societies are most worthy of remark . These exist in several towiU , and hold correspondence with each other . Their object is partly to distribute Bibles gratis and partly to furnish , them at a cheap rate . A society , calling themselves the Evangelical Society , and whose President is the Counsellor of State ,
Count Rosenblad , consists solely of Hernhuthians ; they print and distribute religious tracts , which principally contain relations of the conversion or death of some Individual . Another society , which has adopted the motto of " Pro Fide et Christianismo , " is of
more ancient foundation ; it has published divers writings , which , bear no mark of any Dissenting principles . In Sweden there are no religious periodical publications deserving notice . One of them , styled V Accounts of the Progress of the Gospel , * ' is of
Hernhathian principles , and is but little read . A journal , called " The Swedish Congregational Paper , " was commenced this year , and contains matter relative to the history of the Swedish Church , biographies not very
often connected with the same , and some criticisms , which are more elaborate than interesting . In each diocese there is published what is called the Diocesal newspaper ; but it relates little else besides clerical preferments and deaths , statements of vacant
rectories , and ordinances relative to the clergy . Occasionally there are , likewise , short biographical notices of deceased ministers . There are more works upon theology published in Sweden yearly ,
than ^ upon any other subjects $ these consist principally of sermons , which are sometimes formed into collections , with an appropriate sermon for each Sunday and holiday throughout the year . These collections , or family sermon-books ( called in Sweden
Posthe coin men cement of each Gospel a short prayer is to be found , called the Collect : then follows an extract from the writings of the Apostles , called the Epistle ; and after the Gospel is another
prayer . At Even-song the sermons artj founded upon the Epistle ; and at Matins the priests are allowed to select their own text , Christinas-day exrepted , when there are two Gospels appointed .
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till s )* are to be met with in most houses , and are particularly employed in the country , \ vh ere the distance from Church readers \ % oftentiejes difficult to proceed thither . It is not unusual to find the whole household engaged in famil ^ f * rayers > the sermon being read by the master of the house . Formerly it was customary for the distinguished families to keep chaplains . ¦ " . ; ' , : . - ' .-., . b .
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200 Testimony fo C&rtstivnttg from Imd B ^ ron .
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' - ^^^ ^^^ Vflff ^^ M ^^^^^ . Testimony to Christianity from ^ L » ord Byron * WE seldom introduce the name of Lord Byron into the Monthly Repository . We dare not express admiration , and we are unwilling to join the ranks of those that 3 from such different motives * raise their voices
against him . He is now employed in a good work , the assistance of the Greeks , and happy shall we be to see that in this philanthropic service he is making amends to mankind for any injury whicii he may have done to society by his writings .
A passage in one of his latest poems , with a curiou& note upon it , has led to the introduction of his name upon the present occasion . The passage , and still more the note , is ambiguous : we are eager to find in it some gHihmering of returning piety , but the flash of light in the text is succeeded by thick darkness in the note . The lines are as follows :
Experience is th 6 chief philosopher , But saddest when his science is well known : And persecuted sages teach the schools Their folly in forgetting there are fools . Was it not so , great Locke ? and greater Bacon ?
Great Socrates ? And thou Diviner still , Wjipse lot it is by man to be mis taken . And thy pure creed made sanction of all ill ? Redeeming worlds to be by bigots shaken , H oty was thy toil rewarded ? We might fill Volumes with similar sad illustrations , But leave them to the conscience of the
nations . On t ] he words " Diviner still , " the Noble author has the following com * ment : ' As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity , I say , that I mean * by " Diviner still /* Christ . l £ ev&r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/8/
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