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    feeling of the ^ community . The nationality of its , privileges , ( as in registering births and celebrating marriages)—the nationality of the taxation which supports it—should be done away with , because it was uhscriptural , unreasonable , and # i-^ ciouSi—U-nser ~ i ptur-al , —fori ~ therea \ : as

    nothing in scripture of bishops and other dignitaries possessing overwhelming revenues , while other ministers of religion were pining in poverty : unreasonable , because it supported bodies of men in clear and decided opposition to each other ; and vicious , because it did not promote the moral or religious improvement of the nation . It had been

    working for ages , and yet had prompted nothing but the degradation of the national character , the spread of infidelity , and evils and heartburnings among the people , who were now uniting in one common cry for the removal of that detestable church .

    It had been said by Tdme" of the superiors of the establishment , that the "interests of religion would suffer if it were removed . If religion consisted in maintaining the dignitaries of a church with princely revenues , in the most unapostolic fives- ^ -in an aristocracy , too proud to bring up

    their children to useful employments , but putting them in livings where the pastor was wholly independent of his people—then let the church of Odd be established and patronised by man . But if religion consisted in an assembly of believers worshipping God according to their consciences , presided over by a man

    chosen freely by themselves , and continuing their pastor as long as he continues to work , and needing not to be ashamed of his wages , conscious that they are deserved— -if this was' religion when men worshipped God according to their consciences , and not in the way that the musty creeds of books prescribed— - then it needed not to be established . The ' chairman next referred to the objects . of the Church Reformation

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    Society , of which the" conservative Lord Henley was the head , as stated by themselves ; after reading which , he observed , that the dissenters could not be unreasonable ; people , if they merely desired to carry into effect what churchmen themselves had-projected . . ..

    The chairman next read from a newspaper an advertisement of the sale by Robins , the auctioneer , of an advowson or presentation tp a living valued at 2000 / . a year , where no service would be required ; the present possessor was an old man of

    sixty , very feeble , and not likely to survive long ; and there was a N . B ., which announced , that there was an excellent pack of fox-hounds in the neighbourhood . ( Laughter . ) He also referred to an advertisement written in Latin , which offered for

    sale fifty manuscript sernions , neatly lithographed , so as to appear like writing , _ and warranted of sound orthodox pririciplesr "" The"ad vertiser would be glad to receive commissions regularly to supply clergymen year by year , and he would undertaken that the greatest secrecy should be observed .

    Mr . May again spoke , principally with reference to the state of Ireland with regard to the tithes ; which " he would have appropriated , in the first place , to a national education , and then to the education of students for theministry . "' ' ' 7 ; ;'; ¦ — - - The chairman said he could not suffer the meeting to terminate without expressing the thanks of his congregation and himself to his brother ministers who had come from a distance , and had contributed their valuable aid . on . this-occasiori ^ Ha wished the battle about to ensue

    migJifc be carried on with kindly feeling , yet determined principle , and that the result might be , not only the entire reformation of the church , but what was still more important ; , and what ought to be the end of all reformation , that , after it had been accomplished , churchmen . and disk

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    12 pNlTARIAK CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/12/