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of three of the Committee . The Chairman of each public meeting is appointed by the Committee , his peculiar dutybeing to open the meeting by reading a portion of Scripture and to close it with prayer . The readers for each evening are also appointed in Committee . The selection of subjects is discretional , but
with reference to the leading objects of the Society . As the Society , though fully conscious of the important aid which interchange of mind affords to mutual instruction , would anxiously guard against mere debate , the Chairman , as sole judge of order , possesses a discretionary power to interrupt conversation , and cause reading to be proceeded with .
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Meeting of the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster , ( Continued from p . 578 . ) Thursday , May 27 . The Synod was engaged for some time in receiving reports of Presbyteries . The names of several Licentiates were returned as having connected themselves with that Body .
The Rev . Mr . Mitchel begged leave to lay before the House , a memorial from the minister and congregation of Narrow-water . He wished , before reading the memorial , to offer one or two observations respecting the state of affairs in that congregation . Of his friend , Mr . Arnold , the minister of that place , he
could not but speak in terms of the highest praise . He was a man of the most primitive apostolic character . He was possessed of talents far above what his retiring habits led others to believe ; and as a church historian and a theologian , he ( Mr . M . ) did not believe there was any superior to him in that Synod . He was a man of the most benevolent
heart ; he was a zealous minister ; and he possessed amoral character altogether removed above reproach . Mr . Arnold was not at the meeting of Synod , at Strabane , where that exhibition took place which wounded the hearts of many who witnessed it ; when ministers were
brought forward , publicly , to be questioned as to their belief in a human creed . He is iu the habit of making regular attendance at Synods ; but his ill state of health prevented his attendance on that occasion . Orders were given , that letters should be written to those
ministers who were absent , calling upon them to come forward at the next meeting , and take the test proposed to the others . Mr . Arnold attended the next
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meeting , and , like an honest man , did not hesitate distinctly to reply to the question put to him by the Synod ; he said , that he did not believe the ^ doctrine of the Triuity , as laid down iu the Overtures . This was sufficient for his condemnation . He was immediately declared a heretic , and published as an unbeliever . In consequence of this , part
of his congregation retired from his ministry , but they retired quietly , and without attempting to offer him any injury . They entertained a high respect for his character , and he ( Mr . M . ) believed iu his soul , that they still entertained a high respect for it , and reverenced him in their hearts . They associated themselves together , and procured the use of a Methodist chapel , where they were accommodated , with occasional supplies
from a Society calling themselves the Presbyterian Society of Ireland ; and afterwards they were supplied by the Presbytery of Dromore . All went on peaceably until the month of November last , when those persons who had left the Congregation returned . They came into the Meeting-house of Narrow-water during the time of public worship ; and , after the services of the day were completed , they , kept their seats . Mr . Arnold remonstrated with them , but to no
purpose . Subsequent t attempts were made , on the part of Mr . Arnold and his friends , to remove these people ; in consequence of which , complaints appear to have been made on both . sides . No complaints , however , were preferred at law , until last week , in Newry , when informations were lodged against Mr . Arnold for an assault ; and that
gentleman is now under bail to answer , at the ensuing Assizes , on a charge of assault committed on a Mr . Nicholson , a Probationer , who had been introduced , by force , into the Meeting-house . Mr . Arnold asked this person who authorized him to come and officiate there , and Mr . Nicholson replied , he had been authorized by the Presbytery of Dromore . He was asked to produce that authority ; but after pretending to search for it , he
was unable to produce it . Mr . Arnold told him , if he remained , it would be at his peril . Mr . Nicholson would not give way ; and Mr . Arnold , acting according to the advice of counsel , took him by the coat to put him out . On this , Mr . Arnold ' s opponents came forward , presenting their clenched fists , with threats , and he then retired . The Meeting-house has been lately twice broken open by these men . Mr . Arnold bore with patience , expecting an end to such scenes ^
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648 Intelligence . — Remonstrant Synod of Ulster .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/64/
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