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    ing—it is not easy to find language strong enough for adequate description . The serious Unitarian feels that there is in this glorious system of

    ' * grace and truth / ' every consideration and motive to kindle in the heart the most lively interest , to calL forth the most ardent and persevering zeal

    in the great cause of the religious and moral improvement of mankind . And very efficient exertions of Unitarian piety are not seldom canied on in a manner the most unobtrusive possible , without any of the parade of exhibition to catch the applause of men ,

    but under a deep , habitual sense of the inspection of the All-seeing . May I here have leave to observe , that your own recent pages , Sir , record acts of munificence , fVol . XIX , p , 631 , ] having for their ultimate object the spiritual welfare of mankind

    by means of Unitarian agency , most cheering to the lover of his species , most grateful in the sight of God and man ; of the source of which we are permitted to know nothing but what we learn from obvious inference , that

    they proceed from one who seeks his reward , not in the praises of men , but in the benefits he confers on them , and in the approbation of Him " who seeth in secret and will reward openly" ? The letter to which I alluded in the

    beginning of my own , contains a list , in alphabetical order , of Unitarian Chapels in the county of Chester , with a short statement of particulars relative to each of them . In reading the statement concerning * the Chapel at Allostock , which is in certain

    respects inaccurate , I was reminded that a debt of gratitude from those who are in occupation of the Chapel , still remained undischarged to some of our Unitarian friends for the assistance they afforded us in a subscription instituted for putting that place into a

    state of complete repair . I most gladly and gratefully make public acknowledgment of their liberality' on / that * occasion , through the medium of your Repository . Perhaps an account of

    some particulars in the history of the ? Chapel at Allostock , ( of which I am minister , in conjunction with the Unitarian Chapel at Knutsford , ) and of very humble , but well-intended , exertions made in connexion with that place , ( hitherto , from the chavacter of the neighbourhood , with little suc-

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    Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XXV . " In the beginning , God created the heaven and the earth , "—Gen . i . 1 . THIS is a sublime compendium of the subject about to be very

    briefly immortalized in detail . It embraces , thus concisely , our whole visible creation , with other wonderful works , invisible to mortals- —in fewer words , the solar system . It also seems to import that the entire system was willed into existence simultaneously .

    Ver . 14 . And God said , Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven , to divide ifie day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons and For days and years . 15 . And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven , to give light iwon the earth ; and it was so .

    16 . And God made two great lights ; the greater light to rale the day , and the lesser ligfit to rule the night : he made the stars also . 17 . And God set them in the firmament of the heaven , to give light upon the earth :

    18 . And to rule over the day and over the night 9 and to divide the light from the darkness . Very probable , indeed ,, that God should have produced such immense 3 ind multitudinous bodies for the sole purpose of being * tributary to the convenience and illustration of this

    comparatively insignificant planet ! This has been very frequently and flippantly said and reiterated . But is it a fair construction of the language assumed to have such a tendency ?

    Moses appears to have known nothing of a solar system ; and if any indistinct idea of it had entered his iiiXftd , the brevity with which he wrote precluded his adverting to any effects

    of it , except such as had relation to the globe he inhabited . tie says not that the heavenly bodies were created for no other purpose than to accomaiodatc the earth .

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    26 B , * ief Notts on the Bible . No . XXV .

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    cess , ) may be due to the readers of Unitarian intelligence in your pages . It is possible , therefore , that , under this impression , I may send a

    statement relative to the Chapel at Allostock for insertion in some future number of the Monthly Repository . J . ASHTON .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/26/