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ences in England . I think it not so in America , unless the character of the deceased have occupied an extraordinary space in the public eye .
Intelligence . Few cases are so interesting as the " proposed new Chapel at Sheeroess . " I can have no doubts of its success with that magnanimous aad never-wearied
Unitarian public in England . Would that we in America had more of the spirit of communicating to our own household of faith ! But there is scarcel y a m more hopeless expedition under the sun than a begging one here in behalf of an Unitarian church . The
Unitarian Chapel in Baltimore is the most beautiful edifice in the United States . Its proprietors have already paid 60 , 000 dollars for the building . Twenty thousand more will purchase the ground on which it stands , and which must either be bought , or the whole establishment be sold out of
the hands of the present proprietors . They can raise , though with difficulty , 7000 dollars . They have , in their private capacities , been peculiar sufferers by unavoidable commercial embarrassments . They now offer to their countrvmen to invest the
remaining 13 , 000 dollars in 3 per cent stock , to be secured by a mortgage on the whole ground and edifice , and to be redeemed in fifteen years . I have my doubts whether this accommodating project will possibly succeed ; although in the single city of
Boston , there are five hundred Unitarians whose purses are ever open to applications for other charitable objects , and each of whom could make an outright present to the Baltimore Church of 10 , 000 dollars , without the necessity of abridging a
spoonful of sauce from their daily elegant and hospitable tables . Already the Trinitarians , with an ominous and vultnre-like eagerness , are flapping their wings and muttering their triumphs over the impending dissolution of that devoted church . May their predictions and mine be alike blasted !
Comparison of French Protestants with English Catholics . How affecting is this picture I And how prominent and cutting is the truth of the conclusion ! I tremble every day lest the intolerance of the French Government will wipe out every line of this contract .
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Is not the following remark rather overcharged— "It is a principle in England , that all religions which differ from the religion of the state , ought to be destroyed" 1
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658 Mosaic Mission *
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Sir , Oct . 17 , 1825 . 1 BEG W to assure ( your correspond * ent ., page 538 , ) that it was very far from being my design to " bespatter" him " with obloquy" on account of his scepticism : and though
I charged him vvith inconsistent scepticism , I did not consider the charge of so grave a nature as to merit any thing of petulance in the reply . My only object is the discovery of truth , and truth is best discovered by calm and amicable discussion .
After reading , with considerable interest and attention , his last communication , ( p . 538 , ) I am under the necessity of saying , that so far from having returned a satisfactory answer to my inquiry , he has altogether evaded it . As the remarks contained in his
first letter in your number for June , ( p . 335 , ) appeared to represent Judaism as a system merely of human policy , established without miraculous agency , and , therefore , not entitled to be considered as a revelation from
Heaven , I wished to know how these sentiments , which , I was well aware , are not peculiar to your correspondent , could be reconciled with the belief , which I did not doubt he entertained , of the divine origin and authority of the Christian religion . I stated
my conviction , that the Jewish and the Christian systems are inseparably connected , not only because the divine authority of the former is acknowledged in almost every page of the New Testament , but because , also , the very nature of that office or character which is ascribed to Jesus , and
his title to which it appears to have been the main object of his miracles and resurrection to establish , implies a previous revelation . I expected , therefore , that he would have informed me on what grounds he conceived the divine origin of Christianity might be of
established independently of that Judaism ; instead of which , he has meiely attempted to support his sentiments by the authority of some great names . His language , indeed , is such as leaves me still in doubt what his sentiments respecting Judaism really * vre •'> * °
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/18/
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