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      . £ . Tlie history of the present ; formatioi \ of the earth . 3 . Astrotiomy , as etincing the wisdom and omnipotence of God . 4 . Death a transition to a state of immortality . 5 . The resurrection a blessing to all mankind . ______

      6 . The eternity of future punishflients , and the doctrine of annihilation . 7 . The universal restoration of mankind to happiness .

      The above lectures were delivered with great ability to numerous and attentive congregations , and gave general satisfaction . By inserting a notice of the same in the Unitarian Chronicle , you will much oblige

      Your most obedient Servant , Joseph Ash . Dorchester , April 12 . ?

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      SiRj- ^ Not having opened the Un itarian Chronicle for some months , I was not , till very lately , aware , that the Editor of the Monthly Repository had inserted a few remarks addressed to him on the subject of the Christian Tract Society , —neither did I know of the existence of a reply by the Rev . S . Wood . I am sorry that any feeling of indignation has been excited in that gentleman ' s mind by

      my animadversions ; but leaving out of the question all that is angry and contemptuous in his way of dealing with an anonymous writer , I have to apologize to the public and the Society for omitting to mention the liberty which subscribers possess of taking out tracts to the amount of their several subscriptions . This , as Mr . Wood says , reduces the surplus fund considerably .

      In no other respect do I see reason to retract or alter anything in my former letter . There are indeed such things as * forced * constructions of a writer ' s meaning , and I would fearlessly appeal to your readers whether Mr , Wood ' s coMtf action of thfc teftft

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      I applied to ih& Society ' s pfoduc-. tioiis , be not of the nature of these . I am , Sir , yours , &c .

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      Sir , —Your readers may not be aware that the war against Unita-_ . xians-is-stili—Gonti-Hued-rin—the—evan gelical magazines , though many of us are ignorant of the violent party feeling which rages against Unitarians and all their projects . Two articles have successively appeared in the Congregational Magazine ,

      • On the present state of the Unitarian party in England . ' The first is an attempt to prove that this * cold-hearted system' is fast dying out , and is prevented from doing so Only by means of funds which do not ¦ ri ghtfully belong to it . No doubt the writer ' s arguments are very convincing to the readers of the

      Congregational , and a refutation of them -here is , I am sure , quite unnecessary . I would only observe * that we" should be much obliged to their Correspondent to point out where these funds lie , as at present we are unable to avail ourselves of them , from our ignorance where they exist . If he refers to the endowments which a few of our Chapels enjoy , I

      am not certain whether it would not be doing us a benefit to deprive them of it . It is remarkable that where they are found , the congregations are and continue very small in number . These enlightened and liberal times permit not the destruction of heretics by the sword , or Burning them at the stake , but this writer has discovered a new mode

      of persecution in a Chancery suit , which expedient he earnestly recon ?* mends to the elect , in order to deprive the poor Unitarians of their means of supporting their religion . The second article is , on i The Financial Eiforts of Unitarians , ' of which he disposes in an equally unanswerable manner . He confines his attention entirely to the British and Foreign , Unitarian , Association ,

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      COBBfiSPONDliNGE . 15 &

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1833, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2613/page/27/