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598 Reply to Difficulties in the Unitarian Scheme of Atonement .
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of Savoy ) by the Bernese , it was reconquered by the Duke Charles Emanuel , and all the Protestants who would not renounce Xheir faiths were permitted ta dispose of their property and retire . This was in th 6 year 1594 w
Ever since that time the exercise of the , Protestant religion has been pro ^ hibited , and all attempts to introduce it were regarded as acts of hostility , which the Genevese were desirous of avoiding " , as they were in no condition
to resist . I have stated in my Travels the secrecy wbiqh it was thought ne--cessary to observe , even in burying a Protestant without any religious ceremony , who died at Duing , on the Lake of Auncey , when 1 was there in 1821 . The Genevese cannot be blamed
for omittingwhatthey had no power to do ; but though they could neither preach Calvinism nor Unitarianism , something better remained to be done , and this they h&ve meritoriously performed . Hiey have shewn by their example how real Christians ought to
act , even to those ? who regard them as heretics and enemies . Many of the Genevese have rcountry-faouses in Sa ^ voy , and are , I well know , actively engaged in relieving the great distress of the poor Savoyards , for which they
are looked upon with much suspicion and enmity by some of the Catholic priests : the latter have been known to refuse the consolations of religion to those poor Catholics who receive aid from heretics .
On many occasions the Genevese have assisted the Savoyards very extensively in times of scarcity , and have saved numbers of families from starving ; particularly in the year 1816 ; their charitable and well-timed aid gave
great offence to the Sardinian Government . I believe that no opportunity of doing good to the Savoyards , has been neglected by the Genevese , though it has ever been the policy of the Sardinian Government to excite an
hostile feeling towards them , among the Savoyards of all classes . I have decribed elsewhere , at some lertjgth , the warm interest which the Genevese took in the sufferings of the
inhabitants of Monetier , a mountain village in Savoy , destroyed by fire , when I was at Geneva ; it was truly interesting to observe the unostentatious but judicious exertions made for their relief . I may add , the 8 a-
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Sir , Pctober l \ 1824 . 1 SHOULD be sorry that the questions of your correspondent Efe-Tag-vi <; ( p . 539 ) should remain unanswered , as they seem to originate in a can * did spirit of inquiry , equally creditable
to himself and interesting to othera ; and I therefore offer a few remarks which appear to myself to obviate the difficulties he states ; though I am so conscious of my own unfit ness to enter into deep arguments of this
nature , that I make it my particular request that if any communication should reach you on this subject in which the questions are more ably discussed , you will not suffer this letter to appear . ... ..
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voyard ^ domestics in Geneva must derive much moral benefit from the good examples generally shewn them by the Genevese , and from the kindness and care which they see is taken of their health and morals .
. The Savoyards may truly say to the Genevese , ' * We were naked and ye clothed us , we were hungry and ye fed us , we were sick and ye visited « £ » 9 ^ \ * % . # " ¦ umot « a # * * % /¦ & Innrwtinnui ^ v *> /* And what is the language of
us Christ , 4 t Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these , ye did it unto me" I a praise far outweighing the merit of preaching the doctrines of Predestination and Final Perseverance to an
honest , simple - hearted people , who are more in want of food and raiment than of unintelligible mysteries . When a small part of Savoy , comprising * with the town of Catrouge , nearly the worst par ^ of the Savoy ard population , was annexed to the territory of Geneva , the Genevese Government and Pastors lost little time
in providing means for the instruction and religious improvement of the Savoyards . A large Protestant cUu ^ eh was nearly finished in Garroiige before I left Geneva . I shall now leave the present state of morals in Geneva , but propose on a future occasion to advert
to other parts of Dr . Smith ' s letters relating to that city . I have no prejudices in favour of the Genevese which can indispose me to see their defects , for I have stated them fairly and with some severity . Almost every nation has defects from peculiar ciiv cumstanccs . ROBERT BAKEWELL .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/22/
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