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    Baker has judiciously placed its defence upon the strong ground of utility which in itself is sufficient for any observance , while the arguments which he adduces from scriptural usage , prove beyond a doubt that it is congenial with the spirit , if not with the strict letter of the apostolic practice .

    Having heard , in different parts of the country , remarks on this controversy , which were almost universally in favour of its continuance , I was not a little surprised to perceive in

    your number for June , ( p . 348 , ) a letter from Mr . Rutt , first stating that the question was set at rest , ( although Mr . Baker ' s last paper ia in the same number , pp . 345—348 , )

    and then proceeding to pass judgment upon it , as if the sense of the Unitarian body was against it . I will not say this was uncandid on the part of Mr . Rutt ; but it was at least premature , and in decided opposition to those facts which can better " set the

    question at rest , " than the ipse diwit of any individual . The facts to which I allude may be found in the number of similar services which have taken place subsequently to the discussion . In your last Repository ( pp . 423 , 424 ) 5 s an intei'esting account of the Ordination of the Rev . S . W , Browne , at

    Hull y and in the Intelligence department for the same month is a notice of a similar service at Norwich for the Rev . Edward Tagart . In a letter from a correspondent in Staffordshire ,

    1 hear that the Rev . S . AUard , of Hinckley , was ordained during the last month . And at the Cross-Street Chapel , Manchester , a few Sundays ago , a modification of this service , in which the Rev . Mr . Wellbeloved

    officiated , was employed to introduce the ftev . J . H . Worthington into his connexion with that society . Thus four religious services of this nature have actuall y taken place within a month ur six weeks $ such a circumstance as has not happened for years ; and yet Mr

    . Auttcan declare that the question ls set at rest , and treat it as determined against the continuance of the service . Besides the facts already mentioned , it appears from Mr . Turner s Address to the Students at York , 2 «* e close of the last session , that " ) eir impressions were decidedly in ' ? on f 1- he SCrvice - At tllC COndu ~ at his Address that gentleman

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    observes , " To those of our young friends who are leaving us to fill important stations in our churches , I should feel desirous to offer a variety of observations , if it were consistent with the time prescribed for this

    address . In the mean time I feel a gratification in learning , that it is their general intention to solicit the aiivice of their elders respecting their conduct

    as ministers of the gospel . By whatever name this sort of service may be called , is a matter of inferior consequence ; in itself I cannot but feel that it is a highly seasonable and proper service . "

    Were it necessary to add any other proof that the general feeling is in favour of the continuance of this service , it might be found by collecting the names of those gentlemen who have lent their countenance and aid

    in the different services of this nature which have lately taken place . And if the ministers may not be thought to represent the opinions of the laity , we may be allowed to refer , at least , to the suffrage of those congregations who have concurred with their ministers in continuing this service .

    I will not take up any more of your valuable room than to say , that it would greatly lessen the compass of the discussion , if your correspondents would confine themselves to the simple effects of a rational service , instead of levelling their objections against those abuses which the advocates as

    well as the opponents of Ordination alike condemn . SPECTATOR .

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    Rammohun Roy . 477

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    Great Britain , and it is satisfactory to know that he is regarded with respect and admiration in India by impartial persons . Of this there is a pleasing proof in the following- remarks of the Editor of the India Gazette—a journal devoted to the constituted

    authori-Rarnmohtm Roy , THE talents and character of this distinguished Asiatic are duly appreciated by the Unitarian public in

    ties—which we extract from " The Unitarian Repository / ' ( No . X . for July 1824 , ) conducted at Calcutta by the Rev . W . Adam . The remarks of the Editor of the India Gazette accompanied a paper taken into his journal from " The Unitarian Repo-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/23/