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c < felngtotar ; "' It Ms I 6 ng beenu enr owti persuasion that the J ^ vvs \ v \\\ not be converted to the religion of Jesus Christ * unless they are previously invested with all the rights of citizenship . N .
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Art . II . —The United States of America compared with some European Countries , particularly Englandin a Discourse delivered in Trinity Church , in the City of New York , October , 1825 . With an
Introduction and Notes . By the Right Rev-John Henry Hohart , D . D , Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York . 8 vo . pp . 56 . John Miller . 1826 . WE have here a curious and in many respects an instructive sermon . It has , we observe , drawn
down upon the preacher the bitter censure of certain High-Church reviewers in this country . Dr . Hobart is a bishop , an orthodox one too , according to the standard of orthodoxy in the English Church , and is of acknowledged talents and piety and of
abundant episcopal zeal * and was until lately highly extolled by the dignitaries of our Establishment : but he is a republican , as an American must be to be a good citizen ; he has , on the comparison of England and the United States , given the preference to his native country ; and he
has ventured to point out certain evils in the connexion between Church and State , and to suggest some necessary reforms in the Church of England ; and hence he is reproached with ingratitude , calumny , and we know not what heinous sins besides .
The good bishop , for such he deserves to be styled , lately visited this amongst other European countries , for the sake of his health . He was welcomed to x > ur shores by many ot our nobles and prelates . On his return to his native land , his diocese
and his flock , he preached this sermon , which is an honest effusion ot respect and gratitude towards England , and of superior love and admiration of the United States .
From Psalm cxxxvii . 4 , 5 , 6— the patriot's text—he takes occasion to express the feelings of satisfactio n ^ his own country which had bed
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Imt delfrers it afc his o ^ fmdti ; that their character had bedbnae depraved beyond example . * To that opinioti , nevertheless , we cannot subscribe : the historian had selfish purposes to serve by paying court to his Roman roasters ; and one method of his expressing his adulation was the darkness of the colours in which he drew the portrait of his nation . The concluding paragraph of the Translator ' s preface must not be withholden from our readers :
* The translator m&y perhaps be singnlar in regarding the Jewish people , even in the last days of their national independence , as objects rather of commiseration thart abhorrence ; but surely there can be no question that the language in which they are perpetually spoketi of must tend to retard the event Which every true Christian earnestly desires , the removal of that veil of prejudice which hides from tbeni the evidence of the divine origin of the gospel . Beneath the exterior appearance of passive submission , which fear and oppression have taught the Jew to assume , and the
habits of sordid worldliness to which our unjust laws condemn him , lurks a deep-seated animosity against the Christian name—a name associated in his mind with the brutal outrages of fanatic liiobs , the extortion and cruelty of tyrannical rulers , and though last * not least in bitterness , the harsh and contumelious language with which his nation is
assailed , as if they were branded with the curse of heaven , and a perpetual memorial of its vengeance . While the feeling continues which such reproaches necessarily perpetuate , the efforts of Christians for the conversion of the Jews will probably be as fruitless as they have
hitherto been . It would well become the disciples of the religion of love to set the example of conciliation \ and to renounce the use of language which is equally unfavourable in its influence on those who employ and those who endure It . t € Tu que prior , tu parce , genus qui duels Olympo !"
These sentiments do signal honour to the understanding and the heart from which they proceed . May they be widely spread ! May they be universally adopted I We are desirous of believing that in at least the possession of them the Translator of Struuss ' s Helon is far from being
* De IS . J ., Lib . v . cap . x . § 5 >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/34/
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