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Various Recent Anniversaries / ' the following lamentation , ascribed to " M . Von Bulow , " and said to have been uttered " at the Continental Society
Si * , J * h 4 , 1 S 25 . EXTRACT from the Missionary I Register of this month , under the head of " Abstracts of Addresses at
Anniversary . Van any ot your readers give me information concerning the alarming * work here denounced ? Orthodoxy , according to M . Von I $ ulow , would appear to be in a bad plight in Germany . EPISCOPUS .
You must have heard of Infidel doctrines and books , but I do not know any Antichristian creed which has been so deceitfully introduced , and so systematically taught , as that which is contained in work called of Devotion /
a " Hours * first published in 1807 , in eight volumes , in German , and which has gone through tea editions , and been translated into Ijfrench and Dauish . It is with many their Bible—the instrument , to , promote true Christianity ! I . will give only one
sentence as a specimen . In a chapter respecting ; the different religions , the author says , " The Jew , who cries with devotion in his synagogue to God his Father ; the Turk , who , according to the doctrine of his supposed prophet , in the Mosques of the East , bends his forehead to the dust before the Omnipresent ; the ignorant Heathen , who ,
for want of better instruction , elevates his hands to an idol , at the saind time that he fervently prays to the corruptible dust , he does not less direct his prayer to the Most High God—these are all . sacred to me : they have all one God , to whoni they cry , < Allah / < Abba , ' « Father / They ] ook , with me , with tranquil expectation to the same eternity /'
The contents of this work are Christianity without Christ . Deceitful it is , for * t speaks seemingly with the greater werence of the Redeemer , this Saviour * the Son , of God : bufc even as thfe only comes to bo a peculiar pUcascerlogjvsa it
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mafces all , the positive declarations of the , Bible , to be nothing more than metaphors ,, figures , parables ,, elegant flourishes , oriental language ! The doctrine of a prince of darkness , the author calls blasphemythe day of judgment , a dream of ignorant men 3 And this Antichristiau religion is taught from the pulpits in the universities and in the schools of the continent .
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" Hours-of Devotion "—o , popular German Wfork * 38 St »
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these remarks , we t&ing I wall know : that my V ^ BeraW eirieiMt Mr . Belshwa , with whose ardour ia the pursuit of relig ious knowledge ,, and scrupulous care to derive his faith from the Scriptures alone , I have been acquainted for more than forty years , values truth infinitely more thau any interpretation of Grotius , or- of any other mau . * E . COG AN . ^¦^^ Mil
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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly , Repository for July , 1824 . REPORT OF UNJTARIAN AS- ; SOCIATION . Io my notice of this Association last month , I find I ; nriistook its character and object . Ir * the present Report , its title is carried out at full length— " for protecting ^ the Civil Rights of Unitarians . " My few remarks would probahly hay © been more applicable to such an in * stitution as " The Unitarian Fund . " We have been = laugfeed at for usingf in America the word " influentiaL '
1 should suppose it was employed in this report by good authority . Should Umtarianism ever ^ a in the ascendancy ia England ( and why raay it not , even though it be as erroneous as was Henry the Seventh ' s or Glivej ? CroinwelPs religioti ?) l > y all that i »
Christian in practice , generous in feeU ing , and just and right in government , do not treat your Trinitarian minority as the majority now have treated you * Do not , by a Tote of 105 to 66 ia your House- of Lords , insist that Mr . Bel sham shall marry the Bishop , of St . David ' s or some juvenile Quarterly Reviewer . Do ndt mock a zealous
young Calvuiistic couple at the most moving period of their lives : with Arlan and Humanitarian texts quoted by a cold-blooded Unitarian dignitary * How it would shock them to be obliged to listen to the following * form—^
" Hear what the man Christ Jesus saith , That which God hath joined together , " &c . ! On what principle are four of tire Association ' s Committee made ineli *
gible for one year , if they have ail attended to their duties with requisite assiduity and punctuality ? And why must any proposed alterations * be first notified to the Committee ?
I am anxious to &ee what the united energies of ? all youj Unitarian Sociie * ties will , a&campHsh . Must noD ttw aubscriptmns be raiaedv «« fl thus out otf a torge ^ nurnbor of aasociatea who
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/5/
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