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lead us to expect that great events and revolutions are soon likely to take place ; all well-disposed Christians should then be on the watch to take advantage of any change that can benefit the good cause , and I am
confident that many readers of the Monthly Repository would lend a willing hand to further so desirable an object as the establishment of an Universal Church . J . H .
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Correspondence between the Bishop of Norwich and a Methodist Preacher . Mr . Thomas Rowe , Methodist Preacher , to the Right Rev . the Lord Bishop of Norwich . Lynn ,
My Lord , Nov . 1825 . 1 TRUST your Lordship will pardon the application of a stranger , on a subject of a very powerful interest to the parties concerned ; and as the case has occurred within the
diocese of Norwich , I hope this application will not be considered intrusive or irregular . An infant child , in the parish of Middleton , near Lynn , who was baptized by the Rev . Mr . Rowland , a We 8 leyan minister , died on
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Tuesday the 8 th of this month . The minister of the parish , the very Rev . Dean Wood , has refused burial on the ground of the infant being unbaptized . A copy of the register of the child ' s baptism , and also of Sir John Nicholas judgment on a similar case , have been delivered into the hands of
the minister , and yet the very Rev . Dean persists in refusing burial to the child . If it were a doubtful case , or if there were any convenient ground in which the remains of the unoffending infant could be deposited , the parents would not have troubled your
Lordship on the occasion ; but as the body is turning to a mass of putrefaction before the eyes of its surviving relations , and they have no where to bury the dead out of their sight , they earnestly entreat your Lordship ' s interference . I remain , my Lord , &c . THOMAS ROWE .
The Bishop's Answer . Sir , € t Days ( says Job ) should speak , and multitude of years should teach wisdom . " How far Dean Wood may accede to the truth of this remark , as applicable to me , I dare not venture
peremptorily to decide . But I am inclined to believe , from the intercourse which has passed between us upon former occasions , he will not be indisposed to pay some deference to the opinion of a brother clergyman who is now in the 82 d vear of his
age ; and I have no hesitation in stating most unequivocally what that opinion is . The decision of so wellinformed a civilian as Sir John Nicholl , justifies , I think , any minister of the Established Church in pursuing that line of conduct towards Dissenters of all denominations which
candour , and meekness , and moderation , and Christian charity , must ntiake him anxious to pursue on all occasions , especially upon so interesting a one as that mentioned in your letter , and
in behalf of an individual belonging to a sect remarkably peaceful , pious and inoffensive . Be so good as to shew the Dean what I have written ; he may , perhaps , be induced to respect my suggestions . I am , Sir , yours ,
&c . H . NORWICH . To the Rev . Thomas Route , Wetleyan Minister , Lynn *
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Sm , April , 18 , 1826 . IF you consider the following anecdote worthy a corner in the Repository , its insertion will oblige , J . F . MAHOMET II ., Emperor of the Turks , having seen some of the performances of Bellini , the Venetian
painter , was so struck with them , that he wrote to the Republic , entreating them to send him . The painter accordingly went to Constantinople , where he did many excellent pieces . Among the rest , he painted the decollation of St . John the Baptist , whom
the Turks revere as a great prophet . Mahomet admired the proportion and shadowing of the work ; but he reremarked one defect in regard to the skin of the neck , from which the head was separated ; and in order to prove the truth of his observation , he sent
for a slave , and ordered his head to be struck off . This sight so shocked the painter , that he could not be easy till he had obtained his dismission ; which the Grand Signior granted , and made him a present of a gold chain .
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Correspondence between the Bp . of Norwich and a Methodist Preacher * 225
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/37/
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