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tlernen of different relfcgkrtis denominations . The health of the Dissenting ministers of the town was proposed by a clergyman of the Established Church ; a Dissenting minister proposed the health of the Catholic priest ; and the latter adopted all the liberal sentiments that ;
had been previously suggested . But the most extraordinary occurrence of the day was the generous retractation by Mr . Burn , an aged clergyman , of the hard thiugs which he had written against Dr . Priestley thirty-five years ago : this disavowal of unkindness towards the
illustrious dead is so honourable to the living speaker that we feel it to be a duty as well as a pleasure to put it upon record .- — " In the school of Christianity , " said Mr , Burn , " they were taught that the man who ; was acting in accordance with the spirit of the gospel , was deserving the friendship of his Christian
brethren , however different their seutiments might be . That church to which he belonged inculcated feelings of charity to all mankind , and though there might be things in which they differed , they had no prerogative to assume the right of directing the consciences of others .
He could only say , that whatever might have been the defects of his own conduct in the early periods of his life , he now felt himself better established in the principles of his religion than at any former period ; yet had he to live his
past life over again , he should - have to correct the asperity of feelings and expressions which it was his misfortune to use in his controversies with a late respectable and highly talented individual ( Dr . Priestley ) .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Heceipts of Religious Charities in
1824 , 5 . Bible Societies . British and Foreign £ 93 , 285 5 0 Naval and Military ... 2 , 615 2 0 Merchant Seamen ' s .... 911 4 7
Missionary Societies . Church 45 , 383 19 10 London 40 , 719 1 6 Wesleyan 38 , 046 9 7 Baptist 15 , 995 11 2
London Moravian Association 3 , 568 17 3 Scottish 8 , 257 4 3 Home 5 , 092 15 10 School Societies .
British and Foreign 2 , 114 19 3 Sund ay-School Union .. 4 , 253 12 2 Newfoundland 701 0 6 Societies of a mixed nature , Christian Knowledge .. 62 , 387 3 4 vol . xx . 5 i >
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Rrppa ( gating the Gospel * 32 , 016 14 5 Jews ; .....- L ........ 13 , 715 2 1 London Hibernian ..... . 8 , 143 3 11 Continental 2 , 133 15 1 (* Book Societies . Prayer-Book and
Homily 1 , 781 12 10 Church Tract Society .. 737 19 9 Religious Tract 12 , 568 17 0
In Ireland * Hibernian Bible Society 6 , 728 10 4 Sunday-School Society . 2 , 653 7 2 Tract and Book Society 3 , 647 6 3 Irish Society 1 , 060 3 &
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The Catholic Question .- —A deputation from the Roman Catholics of Clonmel lately waited on the Earl of Donoughmore ( late Lord Hutchinson ) to present an address of condolence upon , the decease of his brother , tl ^ e late Earl , who had for nearly half a c&ftury been the steady aud consistent advocate of their claim of eligibility to civil rights . The
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Apocryphal Question . It will be seen by the following resolution , adopted on Monday , the 28 th ult ., by the General Committee of the British . and Foreign Bible Society , to whom a
Special Committee appointed for considering the question of circulating the Apocrypha with the Bible had made a report expressive of strong disapprobation of such circulation , that the Apocrypha is to be henceforward absolutely excluded from all the Society's Bibles :
" That the funds of the Society be applied to the printing and circulation of the canonical books of Scripture , to the exclusion of those books and parts of books which are usually termed Apocryphal , and that all copies printed either entirely or in part at the expense of the
Society , and whether such copies consist of the whole , or of any one or more of such books , be invariably issued bound , uo other books whatever being bound with them ; and further , that all moneygrants to societies or individuals be made only in conformity with the principle of this regulation . "
What effect this resolution will have upon the harmony of this extensive Society remains to be seen . In some minds it may possibly give birth to other questions which the most zealous Biblists
would be slow to entertain ; as for example , whether it be consistent with reverence of the sacred volume , with a love of truth or with honesty , to continue in the New Testament the Three Witnesses' Text , 1 John v . 7 , which we believe nine scholars out of ten regard as decidedly spurious .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/49/
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