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Hbmokstrakt Presbytery of Temple-PATRICK . Congregations . Ministers . Cairn castle .... Rev . Thoma « Alexander Crumliu Nathan 1 . Alexander Glenarm Alex . Montgomery . Ballycarry .... William Glendy . Tenaplepatrlck Robert Campbell .
Annexed to the Presbytery op Antrim . Congregation . Minister . Clough Rev . David Watson . The ministers and elders of several other congregations have signed the various protests and remonstrances from time to time presented to the Synod ; but have not yet published their final
determination . On the whole , it is expected that about twenty congregations wilt unite together in resistance to the usurpation of the majority in the General Synod . These , with ten belonging to the Antrim Presbytery , and the same number belonging to the Synod of
Munster . will form an aggregate of forty societies , yielding to no association of the same size in the United Kingdom in intelligence and liberality ; and comprising in the list of their ministers almost every name of distinction in literature and theology which is to be found among the Irish Dissenting Clergy .
It will readily be supposed by those who have witnessed the temper of the faction by which this breach has been brought about , that the separation of the Remonstrants from the Synod of Ulster lias not been effected without interruption . Nothing can be more clear than that the wishes and interests of the
Remonstrants equally led them to remove in . an amicable and Christian manner , from a connexion which they had long cherished , which they now quitted with regret , and which they never would have abandoned , had they been allowed to retain it and their integrity together . liut such a peaceful separation would not have answered the ends of their fanatical
and bigoted opponents . In the proceedings of the brutal and ignorant multitude assembled to prevent , by lawless violence , the Ordination of the Rev . David Watson at Clough , we have seen a specimen of the lengths to which
theological rancour can hurry on certain minds . We are sorry to find that an outrage , still more atrocious , has been perpetrated on the Rev . John Watson , brother to the gentleman last named , and minister of Greyabbey , in the Coun-
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ty of Down . The detail of the wrongs inflicted on this excellent man will be best learnt from a speech of the Rev . Henry Montgomery , to which we need not call the attention of our readers . We may be allowed to premise , that the case of Mr . Watson , though in some respects unique , is not altogether without a parallel in . the modern history of
the Presbyterian Church in Ireland . The Rev . Samuel Arnold , of Narrowwater , has , if we are not misinformed , been excluded from his pulp ' t by aft armed mob , consisting chiefly of person ) not even nominally connected with the congregation . The Rev . John Campbell has been threatened by his landlord , ( Lord Templeton , ) with the loss of a farm held by him , as minister of
Templepatrick . No other cause has been assigned for this step , than the part which Mr . Campbell took in the Synodical debates . His case is the more unfortunate , as compensation has been refused for valuable improvements made in the property , at his expense , on the faith of an understood compact , hitherto deemed inviolable . And a loss of a similar kind ,
has been sustained by the Rev . Alexander Montgomery , of Olenarm . This list of sufferers is believed to be incomplete ; but defective as it is , it will probably excite the grief , astonishment , and indignation of the English public .
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MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE , Meeting of the Remonstrant Presbytery of \ Bangor .
( From the Northern Whig . ) On Saturday last , a Meeting of the Remonstrant Presbytery of Bangor was held iu Dr . Bruce ' s Meeting-house , iu this town , to take into consideration the present disagreeable state of affairs in the congregation of Greyabbey . After the uiiuutes of a meeting of Presbytery , held at Greyabbey , on the 12 th ultimo ,
had been read , the Rev . H . Montgomery was requested to give a statement of the business respecting which the present meeting bad been convened . We regret that want of time prevents us from giving more than a very feeble and imperfect outline of Mr . Montgomery's ex *
tremely animated , eloquent , and affecting address . Some of the ideas and statements we shall endeavour to communicate ; but of the language and manner , which added so much to their force , we feel that we caa couvey no adequate impression . Addressing the Moderator , he spoke to the following effect : —
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20 & Intelligence . —Meeting of Remonstrant Presbytery of Bangor
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/62/
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