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ing successors of a more ancient and much more civilized race , whom they drove from their peaceful habitations , or consigned to indiscriminate destruction . This theory is scouted by a brilliant and elaborate writer in the
last North American Review . The whole subject is involved in uncommon interest , perplexity and mystery . London University . When the clamours of party shall subside , the
project of Mr . Campbell will be universally acknowledged to have conferred more honour on his name , than even his own bewitching poetry ; and if it is defeated in his person , let him go to his grave with the consciousness that he has beaten out a
path which some one must hereafter follow with better success . Critical Remarks of Mr . Cogan . At once important and very ingenious . Yet I subscribe not to the Socinian interpretation of the word being flesh .
Mr . Frend on John i , 14 . I ean follow Mr . Frend with nuuch satisfaction through most of his remarks , but lose sight of him as he enters that little cloud of mystery at the end .
Dr Jones on the Proem of John . Few passages in any writer are more profoundly philosophical and comprehensive than the paragraph numbered 7-As Dr . Jones , in this communication , has elaborately shewn how he
would explain the passage in question to learned men , will he have the goodness to write another short article for the Repository , and let us know how he would expound the same passage to men of ordinary attainments and capacities ?
Extempore Preaching . Perhaps the perfection of a course of preaching would be such as is recommended in the little tract of Mr , Henry Ware , Jun ., viz . a considerable portion of it in written , and the rest
m extempore sermons . Where a preacher is obliged to deliver two sermons on each Sabbath , one of them might be prepared in manuscript , and the other be more unpremeditated . But if either the one or
the other of the two kinds of preaching must be exclusively adopted , the advice of the present correspondent
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$ 3 undoubtedly correct , especially with regard to the more cultivated Unitarian congregation . Critical Synopsis . In my remarks on Messrs . Belsham and Channing , p . 65 , I should have written former for latter , where this word occurs the second time . In the same ^ , volume , notice of Rammohun Roy , for institution , read institutions .
Mosaic Mission . On the supposition that our sceptics would succeed in undermining the authority of Scripture , and could render their doubts universal throughout Christendom , what measures would they
recommend for the re-mouldmg of society > Would they found new institutions upon natural religion ? What would these institutions be ? Is it worth while to discuss these things now beforehand , or would it be better to provide for them only when the
exigency of the case may demand ? Yet I should like to see a picture of a community of sceptics , drawn in credible colours , and in a favourable manner , though some readers may suppose that these two conditions are incompatible .
A Long-Lost Truth . This writer is certainly an accomplished inquirer . Does the nature of his subject forbid him to be a little more lucid and distinct ? The Well of Down * A few converts even in America are now and
then picked up by the zealous propagandists of the Roman faith . Motto from Shakspeare . Mr . Evans might have afforded us the parallel sentence from Theognis . Memoirs of Pepys . Downing was a member of the first class that was ever graduated at Harvard College .
The church in Salem , Massachusetts , which stood on the spot where Hugh Peters officiated for five years , has just been pulled down , and an elegant new brick edifice is to be erected on the site . The present congregation are Unitarian * It was the first church gathered in the
pro-. Dr . Creighton seems to have been the Irving of his day . On Dr . Chalmers ' s Discourses . Some of the orthodox in this country , being driven by argument or the force of reflection to feel the absurdity ot certain positions exposed by your
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664 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repositoryvfwr November * 182 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/28/
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