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No . II . Present—Ebion Adamson , Barnabas , Elhanan , and Caleb , Barnabas . How death is impoverishing the churches ! Andrew Thomson and Robert Hall both gone ! The Presbyterians of Scotland and the Baptists of England will be long ere they replace such men .
Ebion Adamson . Thomson was essentially a Presbyterian ; Hall was only accidentally a Baptist . The one wrote but little that did not indicate the sect to which he belonged ; and the other as little that did . Elhanan . The difference was not altogether in the men . Presbyterianism , at least Scotch Presbyterianism , is a complete system . It has power over head , heart , and life . It regulates faith and practice . It forms character . The advocacy of baptism may be connected with a hundred different systems .
Ebion Adamson . And therefore baptism does not serve well either to unite those who hold its obligation , or to distinguish them from other Christians . Caxeb . It discriminates as much as the term Presbyterian does in England . Ebion Adamson . About as much . The one tells you that you are admitted into the church by a certain ceremony ; and the other tells you that there is no church to be admitted into , either with or without ceremony .
Caleb . 'Twere better if there were . We might profitably copy some of the discipline of the popular sects- Ebion Adamson . Let us wait till the problem is solved of rendering that discipline efficient
without the meddling , vexation , and petty tyranny , that are its usual concomitants . Barnabas . Though very decided on the baptismal question , Robert Hall was always the champion of free communion .
Ebion Adamson . He was no sectarian . He could not be made the tool of a party ; and he had too strong a perception of its defects to make himself its head . His antipathies were always much keener than his sympathies . His most celebrated bursts of eloquence are all of a vituperative cast . His Letters on the Freedom of the Press , his Sermon on Modern Infidelity , and that on the Sentiments proper to the then present Crisis , ( to say nothing of his reviews , ) are full of even fierce attack .
Barnabas . Is not this merely saying that he was eloquent ? Southey , in one o £ his Quarterly articles , has endeavoured to shew that the Pulpit can never rival the oratory of the Bar , the Senate , or the Tribune , because it allows not of those appeals to the violent passions by which they produce so much effect .
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THE CONVERSATIONS OF EBION ADAMSON AND HIS FRl £ lHD 9 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/57/
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