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place fixed by their requisition , to reconsider the resolutions . Of the proceedings on this occasion , an official account has beeu published , from which it appears that fourteen voted for confirming the act of the former Presbytery ; and ten not . As every minister belonging to
the body and actually officiating as pastor of a congregation was present at this meeting , together with an elder from every congregation but one , its decision must be final . Some ministers signified their intention of remaining in connexion with the Synod .
Since that time , the congregations of Dunnaurry and Moneyrea have published certain resolutions , declaring their intention of withdrawing from the General Synod , and expressing , in warm terms , their continued affection for their excellent pastors , Henry Moutgomery and Fletcher Blakely . Similar proceedings have been adopted in the congregations of Greyabbey , Moira , and Bailee . These , with Dunnaurry and Moueyrea , have formed themselves into " the
Remonstrant Presbytery of Bangor . Among the ministers who signed the Remonstrance to the General Synod , and of course signified their intention of withdrawing in case of a refusal on the part of that Body to repeal the Overtures of 1828 , were five members of the Teniplepatrick Presbytery—the Rev . Thomas Alexander , of Cairncastle ; Nathauiel Alexander , of Crumlin ; Alexander Montgomery , of Glenarm ; William Glendy ,
of Ballycarry ; and Robert Campbell , of Templepatrick . It so happened that Mr . Glendy was Moderator , and Mr . Campbell Clerk o > f the Presbytery . A motion was made for depriving them of these offices ; and a good deal of manoeuvering seems to have beeu employed for the purpose of dismissing in a contemptuous manner individuals , against whom the slightest whisper of complaint was never breathed , except that they refused to submit to a human test of orthodoxy , or
impose it upon others . A Special Meeting was called for this purpose ; but their co-presbyters deemed it indecorous or indecent to proceed in this hasty manner ; and separated without coming to any resolution . At the stated Quarterly Meeting which was held soon after , Mr . Glendy resigned the Moderatorship , and Mr . Campbell the Clerkship , of their own motion ; and both these gentlemen , with the other three whose names we
have mentioned , declared their secession from the Synod of Ulster and Presbytery of Templepatrick . This was on Tuesday , Nov . 3 . Their congregations have since
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signified their approval of the step taken by their ministers . These five Societies constitute the *• Remonstrant Presbytery of Templepatrick . " Two of the speeches pronounced on this occasion have attracted much of the
public attention . That of Mr . Glendy reveals some matters of fact , which were long rumoured about , but never before , so far as we can ascertain , presented in a tangible form . It is to be hoped they will be strictly inquired into . If they can be established , ( and Mr . Glendy has the reputation of weighing his words , ) they will prove that sorae of the leaders
in the late crusade against private judg * ment are men notoriously profane , obscene , and blasphemous in their conversation ; that one of the most active has expressed in writing his opinion that a certain other minister of Synod , is neither more nor" less than an Atheist ; yet that he has taken him by the hand , and availed himself of his help in carrying
the recent measures ; and , iu particular , that Mr . James Seaton Reid , Minister of Carrickfergus , ( who was employed in the attempt to deprive Messrs . Gleudy and Campbell of their situations , ) was declared by Mr . Cooke himself to be a young man destitute of personal religion . The speech is too long for insertion in our pages at present . Some account of it may appear in a future number .
The speech delivered by Mr . Alexander , of Cairncastle , furnishes an impressive commentary on the anxieties , alienations , and afflictions , occasioned by these sectarian animosities . It is melancholy to contemplate the picture which that venerable and apostolic man draws of the circumstauces of the country ; of what he has himself suffered , and what his brethren around him are
suffering . To his speech also we may , perhaps , revert at some future day . The following have already seceded from the Synod : Prf . sbytery of Armagh . Congregations . Ministers . Narrow-water .. Rev . Samuel Arnold . Ncwry John Mitchcl . Banbridge .... Jarues Davis . Carlingford .... James Lunn . Dromore Saiuuel C . Nelson .
Remonstrant 1 * resbyteuy of Bangok . Congregations . Ministers . Greyabbey .... llev . John Watson . Moira John Mulligan . Duninurry .... Heury Montgomery . Moneyrea .... Fletcher Blakely . bailee David Whyte .
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Intelligence . —Synod of Ulster . 205
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/61/
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