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    • LETTERS FROM FRANCE.
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      leave to transtnit ^ au the ffojibtvirig : ^ - Morriirig eongfe ^ tion , average about 45 to 50 . Evening , 70 to 80 . Sunday school * abou 1110 children on the books ; average attendance , morning 60 ; evening 70 . Besides our library we have a tract society , by which 70 or 80

      families are supplied with tracts which are exchanged weekly . Allow me to suggest that the value of the returns would have been increased by their being dated . Our own , for instance , referred to a period eighteen months or more , I believe , ago , I am the more anxious

      to correct the return , as we are likely soon to have to appeal to the liberality of our brethren to enable us to procure a niore suitable place of worships and it is right they should know that we are neither inactive nor declining . I am , Sir , Your obedient Servant , Joseph Calrow Means .

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      Paris , November 24 . Our Protestant affairs continue nearly in the same state ; the statu quo system , favourite maxim of our government , extends to religious questions ; and our present administration , mindful only of the ways

      and means of assuring a majority in the . House , incapable of taking : * the lead in any great and philosophicai plan of reformation , for the country , appears determined to support the powers that exist , and shows rather a good deal of deference for tlie Catholic clergy . As' ~ iaT ~ 5 fT ~ ' P $ c £ testants , our reformed church splits every day more and more into the two parties of Methodists and Anti-mer

      thodists ; we begin to use for these last , the proud word of liberaux en religion . You must be aware , howr ever , that by the expression as It is understood here of Methddi $ te $ r we d 6 not mean people in strict connexion with the Wesleyan English society We call by this iiame in pur churches every person who > exhibits art ex ? aggerated , dogmatical character , and who maintains in an intolerant strain

      our old forms of Calvinistic faith . We clearly anticipate a time , not perhaps very remote , when pur French churches will actually divide into two-denominations , . having , each , their special ministers and- their . in *

      dependent academies . This , hpwr ever , would be giving the . Catholics a sad spectacle . However , this must some day or other take place , an $ English methodistical influence will give as good an aid as it can that way . For example , we had the other

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      Lewin ' s Mead Chapel , Bristol-Rev . Dr . Carpenter , Rev . Brooke Aspland ; morning 500 to 600 ; evening 300 to 400 .

      Weekly Schools—Infant School , * from 2 to 6 years old , about 100 , Intermediate ^ from 6 to 9 years pld , about 100 . Oirls'Dharity , irbm 9 to H years old , about 20 . Boys' Charity , from 9 to 14 years old , about 36 .

      Sunday Schools , about 150 . Brid g ewater- — Christ Church Chapel , Rev . Mr . James ; morning , 70 to 100 j evening 100 to-150 . ; L ;; Frenchay Chapel , near Bristol-John Tingcomb © ; 50 to 80 , ; L . Coventry—Henry Wreford ; 250 ; L . ; SS . ; boys 41 , girls 73 ; an en *

      In these two schools the children pay a small sum weekly .

      do wed school for clothing and educating 41 boys . .. ¦¦ ' Page 147 , you have « Colytoa * under Derbyshire ; should it not / Se in Devonshire , near Axminster ? At Plymouth , the minister is the Rev . W . Odgers .

      Letters From France.

      LETTERS FROM FRANCE .

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      Mr . Editor , —My congregation has increased ,-and is increasing ; it is now 30 to 50 . J . Platts , Doncaster .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/17/