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nounced respectable laymen and permitted to speak . " But it is so pleasant to have all the talk to one ' s-Belf , and to dispute without " opposition , " that the " advantage" must be secured as often as possible . Hence , «« two Romanists offered themselves , and there is strong reason to suppose that one of them was a Jesuit ( angels and ministers of grace , defend us ! a Jesuit ! did you say a Jeswt ? J in disguise , as he refused to give any description of himself He was not in consequence permitted to speak : and the other could not be
heard as the time of adjournment had arrived before he presented himself . " If fair play merits success , to bow large an amount is our " Second" Reformation Society not entitled ! Seriously , it is amazing that people allow themselves to be fleeced on such paltry pretences , and that professors have the boldness to call on their priest-ridden disciples to be thankful to Almighty God for such signal success as we find recorded in this Report . Boldness , we say , not relatively to man , but to God . For it is bold , not to say audacious , to pretend that God has manifestly blessed labours , the results of which not even votaries can state without self-impeachment and
condemnation * Since writing the above , we have seen an appeal lately issued by the Society on whose reports we have animadverted . The appeal calls loudly on Christians to contend earnestly for the faith at a period " wherein a specious show of what is called liberal principles is widely spreading , and thereby rekindling that doctrine , that if a man be sincere to his principles * whatever they be , it will be weil with him—an opinion which the Church of England has branded with the name of heresy . ''
But there is something worse than this . Besides the spread of this odious principle of liberalism , " every year , of late , Popery has been advancing . " The appeal then furnishes us with some statements , drawn partly from Catholic and partly from Protestant authoritie s * Between the years 1824 and 1829 there has been , in England and Wales , an increase among Catholics of fifty-three chapels and fifty-seven priests . The total number of Catholic chapels in the united kingdom , in IB 29 , is 468 , and the total number of priests 484 . The Catholics possess eight colleges in England , of which that
of Stortyhurat , in Lancashire , is the most considerable . This college has room for 400 or 500 students , independent of the professors and domestics ; and it id said to contain , at the present moment , 500 individuals of various descriptions , of which number the pupils alone are supposed to be between 200 and 300 * This number may be taken as an average for the last twentyfive years * Within a quarter of a mile of the college is a seminary for boarding and educating boys preparatory to their entering the establishment at Stooyhurst . By the exertions of the priests connected with the establishment , the doctrines of Catholicism are said to have been widely spread
in the neighbourhood of the college . We have certainl y no wish to hear of the extension of Catholicism in these kingdoms ; but if it does spread , the clergy < frf the Church of England are chiefly to blame . Let them do their duty ; above all , let them reform the errors of their church , and then , in contest with the Catholics , reason and scripture will , beyond a doubt ,
prevail over mysticism and human authority . Now that the Catholic question is settled , we are disj > osed to think that in Ireland there will be a falling away from the communion of Popery . Whether or not the separatists will join the Established Church , or to what extent they may do so , remains to be seen . But the elements of a change are at work in Ireland . One society in Dublin , the Kildare-place Education Society , state , in their last annual report , that £ 8752 was received by them in the last year , in voluntary
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/33/
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