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any thing which you thought worth inserting , I should always be happy to do so . My wife asks a hundred domestick questions * * * * in answer to which I have lent her your letter to read , and promised her another in due time ; but her affection clashes with her patience . I am , dear Sir , with most sincere respect aud affection , ever yours , R . ROBINSON .
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On the Want of Juvenile Publications amongst Unitarians , To the Editor ,
Sir , It has always appeared strange to me , that pareuts of the Unitarian faith should be so careless of the bias their children
are likely to feel towards the contrary side of the question , owing to the entire absence of all juvenile publications by those of their own persuasion . Go into what bookseller ' s shop you may , you will find a variety of tracts , both periodical and of other descriptions , written by Trinitarians , but in vain have I inquired for any thing adapted to the
capacity , or likely to attract the attention , of the young , by Unitarian authors . Surely we have among us sufficient zeal and enough talent ably to support a twopenny weekly , or sixpenny monthly , publication , containing plain liberal views of religious subjects , embellished with good wood-cuts , and interspersed with moral tales , dialogues , and poetry of a kind similar to the " Contributions of Q .
Q . " If the insertion of this letter should be the means of inducing some of your amiable and clever readers to embark in an undertaking of this kind , it may be a cause of rejoicing to many , but to none more sincerely than Your constant reader , M . S .
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On the Choice of Ministers . To the Editor . Sir , I fu lly agree with your correspondent V . F ., ( p . 132 , ) on the mischief arising from rival candidates for the pastorship of Dissenting congregations . The plan which he recommends , of one candidate at a time , and of a decision . © n
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Robert Robinson on Periodical Publications . We owe the communication of the following characteristic letter of the Uev . Robert Robinson ( addressed to the Rev . Mr . Coettogon ) to the kindness of Mr . Mardon , in whose hands it was lately placed , with permission to put it at our disposal . We are sorry to find so great an authority against the utility of our labours .
Chesterton ^ Nov . 17 , 1783 . Rev . and Dear Sir , It was with singular pleasure I received your favour , as it informed me you were well , and pursuing the great business of a Christian minister ' s life , diffusing knowledge , virtue and felicity among mankind .
I always supposed a periodical publication a proper method of edifying the Christian world , but I have several years ago ceased purchasing and reading any , being fully persuaded that real religion received no advantage ; but , on the contrary , was extremely disserved by such
publications . Hackneyed saws , old wives ' fables , mean ] criticisms , false reasonings , wretched rhymes , puerile questious , and , if possible , more puerile answers , conspired to expose religion to contempt , and yet the religion we profess is the wisdom of God .
I do not wonder you are solicited to set on foot and superintend a work of this kind , for you are the man on whom my hopes have always been placed , so that I have often exclaimed on peeping into those religious reveries , I doubt , I doubt De Coetlogon is dead . Were I intimate with you , as I formerly had the honour to be , I verily tfoink I should take the liberty to reprove you for standing silent and suffering such ninnies
to disgrace the noble cause of Christianity with such beggarly productions . Put on , my dear and honoured Sir , that manly sternness which is so necessary to rescue religion from the flippant hands of its playful children , ( pious , bt | t in a state of infancy , ) aud do not suffer every purchaser of the magazine to insert his nonsense . I am sure you are equal to the task , and I shall be happy to recommend and encourage every thing ' of yours , and if it were in jay power to send you
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/49/
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