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as had left the Synod , were to be restored ; and this would go to assist the proposed fund . Mr . Montgomery concluded , by stating , that a call should be made upon all denominations , Ireland should be put forward first f and when it was seen what she would do , England could be appealed to . It would take this summer to call upon this country ; and they should send persons to England in the next spring , where he was coufideut of success .
An Overture was also read and agreed to , to the effect , that it be recommended to Presbyteries to give an equitable compensation to such members of congregations as may choose peaceably to separate themselves from the body ; and it is hoped that the General Synod of Ulster will do the same to such persons as would leave them .
After some farther business , not of general interest , the Synod was concluded with prayer .
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Public Dinner to Dr . Baldwin . ( From the Cork Mercantile ChtonicleJ At a public dinner given to Dr . Baldwin by the inhabitants of Cork , Aug . 19 , Mr . O'Connell iu the Chair , the following toast was given : " Mr , Hume , and Ecclesiastical Reform . "
The Chairman , in proposing this toast , dwelt on the superior excellencies of the Member for Middlesex , and contended with that incorruptible and indefatigable Senator , that no man should be compelled to support the religion of another . When the cheering which the toast had excited had partially subsided * there was a general call for Mr . Dowden ;
In the course of his speech , Mr . Dowden observed , Mr . Hwme haSj in his most useful Parliamentary career , touched on almost every topic of reform ; the reform in Church taxes is the toast here coupled with his name—and here let me
say , that in introducing it , the uncompromising Chairman made a broad allusion to Presbyterians . When he said he thought it hard that he should pay Mr * Hume's church , I saw him look at me—but I am ready tOMneethirii there ; I stand unblench ^ d before him . The
llegium Dormm is unsought , undesired , disliked by many of the laity of our church—though a royal gift , it never was a favour , or intended as such . Let every church support its own clergy its ovvn way , is o \ ir common doctrine . The government that bestowed oir Presbyterians the Megium Donum > thought .
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with a paltry bribe , to bay their servility —it has but little neutralized their eireri gies . The republican tone of their institutions has preserved them from the debasing influence of a court-paid church . How very overseen is the government , not to understand the futility of a petty bribe . Sixteen thousand a-year in Ireland to a million of Presbyterians \ Why
it is an insult—just enough to keep their indignation alive . Suppose now that you pass a gateway to a gentleman ' s house , and give the gate-keeper a farthing . what does he say or mutter- —* ' Go hang yourself , you mean wretch ; if you gave nothing , I would have set it down to your poverty . " ( Hear , hear , ) This is just the state of the Presbyterians—thi
little they get is matter of hin derailce and suspicion between them and their pastors , for be it known to you , the laity have nothing whatever to do with this precious gift , they have no controtti over it , it converts Presbyterianism into a royalty in little , it is all- an affair between the Crown and our clergy . But , Mr . Chairman , 1 mast remind you of
your own little Regitim Domtm—rGtnem ber your 9000 £ . a year for educating priests at Maynooth . You ought to come into court with clean hands—get rid of Maynooth , and then attack us ; we plead guilty . What pretty legislation it is , making every man do the thing his conscience disapproves — the Catholic support the Churchman and Dissenter ,
the Dissenters give a little to both , the Churchman a grain of the bag of corn he tears from us , while the Quaker and Independent are fleeced by all parties . But let it not be thought I want to deprive the holders of the benefits of government life-interest in our church , or any other- —I would not deprive the
incumbents ' , or recu in bents , the people who sit heavy upon cushions in the Church of England during their lifetimes , but let no new grants be made to Presbyterians , Catholics , or Churchmen —let religion go free . Hume advocates the dissevering of Church and State —• we ail agree with Mm ; it is an evil which no religion , not even the
Christian religion , can prosper under , to be made the tool of a government . Protestantism is ou the decay in the country—r-I ^ as a ze alous Pro testant , ; deplore it—the government are aiding this lapse with all their might . There are parishes without one Protestant , where church dtie » are levied to si monstrous extent , and without mercy ; what do the inhabitants of these parishes know of Pro-
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654 Intelligence *—^ Public Dinner to Dr . Baldwin .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/70/
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