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Ireland . —We insert with much gratification the following list of subjects of a course of lectures to be delivered in the Presbyterian Meeting-house , Great IStrand Street , Dublin . May this first attempt , of the kind , to attract public attention iu Ireland to the principles of Unitarian Christianity meet with such encouragement as shall occasion its being followed up by a series of similar efforts , and may the Divine blessing be on those who have so honourably come forward in the work , crowning their labours with abundant success !
March 21 . Rev . Dr . Drummond . The Unitariau Christian ' s Faith explained . 28 . Joseph Hutton . The Father the only True God . April 4 . James Armstrong . The Sin against the Holy Ghost . 11 . Dr . Druminond . Scriptural Views of the Character of God . 18 . James Martineau . Doctrine uf Vicarious Sacrifices . 25 . James Armstrong . Mystery . May 2 . Dr . Drutnnioml . Election and Reprobation . 9 . Joseph Hutton . Final and efficient Causes of the Obscurity of some Parts of the Sacred Writings . 16 . James Martineau . Scripture Doctrine of Reconciliation . 23 . James Armstrong . Baptism in the name of the Father , Son , and Holy Spirit . 30 . Dr . Drummond . Terms of Final Acceptance with God . June 6 . James Martineau . Unitarianism fully adequate to the Spiritual Wants of Men .
To commence at Half-past Two o clock . We have just received a full and interesting account of the proceedings at a meeting held in Dublin , on the 17 th ult , for the purpose of organizing an Irish Unitariau Christian Society , which will appear in our next number .
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Church of Ireland . —March 6 , Sir John Newport moved for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the state of the Irish Church : he moved at tlie same time au address to the King , recommending the suspension of every appointment by the Crown to a benefice , until the repairs on the cathedrals , if any should be necessary , were paid out of the revenues of the benefice . Sir John
stated , that the plati on . which Irish parishes were united , rendered the parish churches of no use to a great proportion of the inhabitants ; yet all were called on to contribute equally to the repair and building of these churches , Catholics as well as Protestants . The conditiou of
the curates , too , called loudly for inquiry . He had in his hand a letter from a clergyman , seventy-nine years of age , of unimpeachable character , who had beet ) a curate for fifty-seven years , at a salary which had varied from 40 / . to 75 / ., and at present amounted to 69 / . He had beeii under the government of six
different bishops , all of whom admitted his merits , though each in succession disregarded his claims . One of these dignitaries was the Bishop of Ferns , who could see nothing to reform in the Irish Church . The state of the pluralities was another subject to which the Commission should direct its attention .
Sir Robert Inglis thought that the present progress of improvement in the Irish Church rendered the proposed Com-
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mission unnecessary . He should therefore move the previous question . Lord F . L . Gower had no wish to wrap the situation of the Church in mystery . He objected , however , to that part of the motion which recommended
the application of the revenue of a vacant benefice to the repair of the cathedral ; for he apprehended , that although , when benefices became vacant , they might remain so , it was obligatory on the Bishop to sequester the revenue for the use of the next incumbent .
" He therefore had a distinct legal objection to this portion of the proposed resolutions ; besides which , he thought it improper to mix up with a motion for information , any thing so like a radical change of the present state of the law . He concluded by moving , by way of amendment , that an address should be presented to his Majesty , praying for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the state of the pariah benefices of Ireland—into the annual value of the
several parishes—into the contingeuces of their respective churches and chapels —into the possibility of dissolving the existing unions—and into several other details . " Mr . Trant declared that the object of the Commission was to reform what needed no reformation . If the Church
of England was to be pulled down , let it be pulled down by honest hands . LordL ( jOvveh ' motion was agreed to .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/71/
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