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ministifrs of the gospel , according tp their U 3 ualf practice , instead of leading public opinjoi , have followed the ebbing tide , and prepared to plant their feet iu a 4 ry place . They have eudea . vouji : ^ $ 0 build the pyramid of religion from the top , instead of going first to those classes that form its broad basis . The name of Dr .
Coolie must no doubt be familiar to all of you . He and others have done ail in t ^ ieir powe r to the injury pf religious liberty . Tjhey ar , e men who scruple # t 110 means to attain their uuholy ends ; and who would command the sun itself to stand still , while they glut their thirst for vengeauce . Such men , however , are doing our work for us . They have raised
up against themselves men who are powerful advocates of pur cause , and before whom they must ultimately fall . Jt is impossible that men like Mr . Blakely and Mr . Montgomery can ever be suppressed by such men as Dr . Cooke and his associates . C 4 pp ? atcse . ) The times of antiquity , when men weie persecuted for the sake of their religion , hav £ been
invested with so much attraction and romance , that we are at times almost tempted to wish ourselves hack to those fJajp of trouble . If any Englishmen , however , have such feelings , we have pjily to invite them across the channel , Where their longings inay be gratifted to tfeeir ^ fuijiest extent ., But the tinpes are different mw froiid what they were , when a
mat ) w ^ s threatened with the pillory for pu > l ; &hing a book , full of ( pie , ty ; a ou the dqctiine of the Trinity . Such a man woul $ not now lie six months in a dungeop , ; wi $ hoiit a single visit from auy of bis clerical brethren . ( Hear . ) We have Dffiy ^ Drw-m ^ ond , the xery ^ ovver of Christian chivalry ; who \ s ajvvap ready to break a lance with the redoubtable
foe ; and we have the noble , the r . ichminded Montgomery . They Jalk of the enchanter ' s wand , wheu they cannot resist the power and force of his eloquence ; bjUt we would rather compare his ^ lo-( juence to tbe prophet ' ^ rod , at vvhose touchthefloodof bigptry divides , whilst the emancipated hosts of truth pa $ & through in triumph . ( Loud cheprs . J The welfare of Ireland cannot be better advanced ,
tfca ] n hjy a inpre intmiaj ; e uuion of the t * jrq islands . The English are iujt understood in $ ie sister islaiid ; ainl they are mi ^ uiid ^ rstpod because ; t ^ py are superior . fCrm qf Nq , , # q ' J % . ^ faeaii ^ o ^ ay they are superior ^ qcan ^ e thgy tyave bafl « a <{» t * e ^ cperi ^ nce , ^ n 4 a / e further ^ d ^ auced \ n the arta of civilization- We are oply i « the vestibule , the pprch of . Ch ^ stian liberty , but have not yet entpre . 4 the re-
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cesses of the temple . Were a more itnimate connexion established between the two islands , we should no longer be ob-Hged to look to England as the highest , and to IreJand as the lowest point of Christian liberty and truth . We should jbe more upon an equality , so that your brethren in Ireland might be made blessed by that spirit by which you are nude free yourselves .
" The Tutors of Manchester College , Yovk 9 aud success to the important institution over which they so ably pre - side . " The Rev . John Kenjuck said , that , in rising to thank the meeting for their kind expression of feeling towards the institution to which he belouged , he had to regret that the duty of representing
that institution on the present most interesting occasion had fallen exclusively upon him . Mr . Hincks was necessarily detained at home by the duty of superintending the institution ; whilst the state of Mr . Weilbeloved's health and spirits did not permit hito to atteud . He ( Mr , Ken rick ) always felt giieat pleasuz-e in presenting himself before assemblies of
this nature , and he had a pecpiiar ]) lea » sure in doings so on the , present occasion ; for he could npt buti cecaUect the obligations of the Institution , to iwhich h £ belonged , to tfe ^ county of . Lancaster . He couldr not bu . t recollect * that . in this county the plan first originated of providing for the children -of D ^ sseuters , funaccop 3 pa «
nied by the exaction ; of ; subset ! pt < i < Mi to articles of faith , or anty other impediment to free and ingenuous inquiry , those advantages of a learned an ^ l liberal education which were withheld from them by the unjust institutions of their country . It would have given foiia great pleasure if he could have stated that the number
of students was uvcreasecl j but he was sorry to say , that instead of increasing , the number had beep reduced- This was owiiig to a variety of causes ; some of which were far from being sources of rpgret . The 5 pi-iHcipaJLr cause was no doubt to be found in t , l > e > e ^ tablisliuient of , anot |> er institution in Lotulou , in which that same . principle of a free and unfettered education for which the
founders of Manchester College had beea aipo ^ g the first to contend , was frilly recogn ^ efl . y \ jiother cause of diiuiniuion was Vo j >^ fo u , nd in the lacjt , tjiat aUjiknts froiu tj ^ North of Ireland , who were Quce couipelled to resort to the Collet n& York , had woyv (^ ie opportunity .. pf J > " dying in a siipilar iimutution , whid ' j owing tp tji e progress ^> f libera l opipi «» H » hftd befu established in their own <; oim *
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b 74 Intelligence . — Unitarian Association
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/70/
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