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conscience for all , they , must come at last . Their hands will be strengthened too by all those , and they are many , in the Established Church , who think equal justice better than an ill-got , unsafe , and oppressive political monopoly . The sight of injustice is a grievance . The unpro * testing witness of wrong , which his protest may stop or check , is culpable . u He who allows oppression shares the crime . "
March 3 . While inquiries are proceeding , with fearful interest , about the loss of life occasioned by the fall of the Brunswick Theatre , intelligence arrives of an equally fatal catastrophe at Manchester ; a vessel upset as she was being launched on the Irwell , and about fifty persons were drowned . The machinery . of business , and of pleasure , have thus alike become that of death . Business and
pleasure will , however , continue to be eagerly pursued ; nor must the preachers who avail themselves of these calamities to enforce the vanity of earthly things , forget that the boat or the house " built with hands" has been , and may again be alike unfaithful to the builder ' s design , when trusted to for the most religious purposes . All events have their moral lessons ; but they should be deduced with more cautioti and charity than some have shewn on this occasion .
March 5 . The Court of Aldermen yesterday rescinded a standing order , made in 1785 , against the admission of baptized Jews to the freedom of the City of London . This is an advance not in , or of , but towards liberality . It is a diminution of injustice and absurdity . A baptized Jew , that is to say a Christian of Hebrew parentage , may now hope to be allowed to share in the trading privileges of the citizens of Loudou . That is the extent of the boon .
The uiibaptized Jew is left where he was . The Corporation . has done well in petitioning against the national Test Act ; and would do better in considering its own civic Test Act . It would do best of all , could we imagine it capable of such a " self-denying ordinance , " in inquiring how far there is right or expediency at all in preventing any
persons carrying on any . lawful business within its jurisdiction . Where is the good Of their levying a tax on industry , and retaining a veto on its honest and honourable exercise ? There are few corporation rights but what are individual wrongs , and based upon the least defensible principles of monopoly and exclusion .
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March 12 . The -World of to-day ( Dissenters ought to do more for that paper ; it does much for them ; it supports their rights and reports their meetings ) gives a curious fact on the authority of the Rev . J . Rees at the Tottenham-court Chapel Auxiliary Missionary Society . It had been supposed that such institutions , with their presidents ,
secretaries , and : missionaries , Were of comparatively recent origin . These meetings , however , are traced back ; but we will only quote the passage , which is too profane for jocular comment aud too contemptible for serious reprobation . " The first missionary society was held in the counsels of God ,
between the Eternal Three . The results of that meeting were to be found in the covenant of grace . The first missionary that ever appeared in our world was the Lord Jesus Christ" The directors must feel as flattered as Lord Teignmouth did when he had helped the Committee of the Bible Society to
put their papers to rights , and Mr . Owen exclaimed , "His Lordship saw the chaos of our documents ; he said , Let there be light , and there was light . " Such preachers would be angry if auy of their people doubted that Dr . Priestley treated the Scriptures and divine thiugs irreverently .
March 19 . After the speech of Mr . Peel last night , the Sacramental Test may be considered as abolished . That stain of profanation will be wiped off from the leaves of the statute-book , by however much of intolerance they may still remain blotted . In this all serious Christians must rejoice . The Church of England especially ought to feel grateful
to the Dissenters whose exertions have thus rescued its holiest ceremony from perversion and scandal . It should feel the more grateful in consideration of the little which its own members and ministers have done in protesting against and procuring the abolition of this desecration . Mr . Sturges Bourne says , ' « All agreed that the practice now sought to be abolished was one which occasionally gave rise to scenes of the
most revolting hypocrisy and sacrilege . " Whatever the Church may think of itself for having so long tolerated , aud been a party to , such a practice for the sake of some imagined , but only imaginary , temporal advantages , it ought assuredly to feel strongly the deliverance from degradation which has been wrought out for it by the objects of its suspicion . The Declaration proposed by Mr . Peel
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/71/
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