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article , has subjected to the superintendence of the constituted authorities , all meetings of individuals for the purpose of worship , but has restricted that superin tendency to measures of policy for the public safety ; and that it has prescribed , by its 5 th article , the preliminary formalities to be observed on the establishment of a society for worship ; and whereas
the 291 st , 292 d , and 294 th articles of the penal code of 1810 , first , by obliging individuals , to the number of more than twenty , to obtain permission from government for holding religious meetings ; secondly , by refusing to every individual the right of granting or letting , without the consent of the municipal authorities , the use of any house or apartment for the purpose of worship , far from being
in accordance with , are restrictive of the liberty granted by previous laws , that every man should enjoy the exercise of the religious worship which he prefers ; and whereas the Constitutional Charter , by declaring , in its fifth article , that ' every man shall profess his religion with equal freedom , and obtain equal protection for his worship , ' has not introduced a new right , but only abolished the restrictions which had before been
laid upon the freedom of religious worship , maintaining , at the same time , the superintendence which appertains to the administrative authority to repress disorders ; seeing that the regulations of those articles of the penal code of 1810 already cited , becoming incompatible with the 5 th article of the Charter , and contrary to the freedom of religious
worship , have been abrogated by the 68 th article of the same ; and whereas in this instance , the minister of the Cousistorial Church of St . Quentin , having discovered that ( he number of Protestant worshipers in the society of Levergies exceeded twenty-five , had made the preliminary declaration required , that the . se individuals intended to meet in the house of
the above-named Poisot for religious purposes ; « md , seeing that in asseinT t > fitif ? 4 after this preliminary declaration , the Protestants of Levergies have exerr cisesT a right secured to them by the fundamental compact , all < l could not in 8 O exercising it convtnit any offence , we tbeteftre set aside the decree of the tri *
banal wf St . Qoentdn , $ c ., &c , and disuiita the appellants without paying coat a . " Remie Pf * t * 9 tu * te >
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430 Intelligence . —Foreign : Prussia .
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PRUSSIA . On the Situation of Theological Affairs in Prussia . Efforts cf the Mystics for the dismissal of their Opponents . ( Extract of a letter from Berlin to the Editor of the Revue Protestaute , dated April 1 st , 1830 . )
Sir , —As to the disturbances excited by the denunciation of the theological opinions of Messrs . Wegscheider and Gesenius , in the " Evangelical Gazette of the Church , " I can give you no satisfactory information , because , up to the present time , the authorities who have been charged with the exami nation of the affair maintained the most inviolable silence . Thus far is certain . On one
side great agitation has been produced at Halle , so that , at the outset of the business , placards in Latin and German were daily stuck up on the black table , ( Schwarzes Brett , or university board , ) not only by the students who were disciples of the two professors , but by those of the Mystic opinions . The . Mystics of Berlin , on the other hand , have succeeded in persuading government to interfere in this theological quarrel . It is known
that a distinguished member of the administration has been commissioned to opeu an inquiry concerning Mr . Wegscheider , and that the ministry has sent expresses to Halle . The Methodists consider themselves as already triumphant , and predict openly that these two celebrated professors will be turued out on account of their opinions- This does not appear to me to be likely ; I should even consider it impossible that the minister of ecclesiastical affairs would take
this stt * p , whatever may be his private opinion upon the subject . Nut to mention the offence which such a measure would give in a country where the great Frederic established liberty of thought and tuition—in Germany , where some provkices ( Weimar , for instance ) have conferred offices of responsibility upon rational Christiana—passing over all this ,, it is sufficient to observe that Geseniujs
and Wegscheider professed the very same opinions which are now attacked , fifteen years ago—pprofessed them iu writing as well as in . their lectures , and that the&e opinions have beeu perfectly known to the ministry without their having ever
taken any steps to , prevent the professors from continuing their instructions . Professor Neauder also , a theologian who is so justly venerated by all parties tor the services which he has rendered to religion , and for his truly apostolic elmracter , has twice expressed himscLi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/70/
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