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    surely be much better than breaking up the establishment , and allowing all the world to scramble for the spoils . Instead of putting up the cathedrals and churches to public auction , as our author proposes , we would keep them in good repair , let all the denominations share with the episcopal , in the use of them on Sunday , under such regulations as time and locality would require ; and in them ,, and in the chapels which would thus be

    vacated , there would be noble accommodation through the week for the lecturer , the schoolmaster , artistical exhibitions , and social meetings . The episcopal clergy will cry desecration , as the Catholic clergy cried before them , in the ears of their predecessors . But when the sons of the church cry , they should remember , that the fathers of the church were deaf on a similar

    occasion . They were wise and righteous men in their time , those fathers of the church of England . The country would thus derive a rich harvest of good from the liberality of our pious forefathers ; who , if they did not look to any such plan of universal education and instruction , of culture which benefits the soul of man while living , as much as they thought that masses could avail it when dead , at any rate did not

    contemplate the endowment of a schismatic , apostate , and rebellions band , whom they would not have acknowledged for a church , defying and vilifying that Pope whom they venerated as a God on earth . The application of their bequests must be regulated either by the letter , or by the spirit . Church of Englandism has no title either way . It can neither plead the immediate intention of the founder , nor the liberal exposition of that intention , according to the views of a more enlightened age .

    . but bad as is the title or the body , individuals must be dealt with fairly , and even kindly . Our author ' s analogy is not altogether applicable . 4 Suppose your wishes were to be carried into effect , what would become of the numerous clergymen who have spent their youth in preparing for their profession , and who now subsist by it ? * Pray what becomes of the numerous artisans who , when a newlyinvented machine is brought into operation superseding manual labour , are turned adrift ?

    They seek new channels of employment . 4 Then let the clergy seek new channels of employment , if their own fail them of voluntary support . The cause of justice and liberty and truth must not be retarded to accommodate them . The application of the principles of eternal rectitude must not be obstructed to suit their convenience . The great example of a mighty nation shaking 1

    itself from the thraldom of centuries , and declaring all men ' minds to be free as the mountain air , and untaxable as the eagle of heaven , cannot be delayed to gratify them . No ! Church establishments are falling all over the globe . Mahometanism is falling—Hindooism is falling—and Englandism is falling . Let us dig- decent graves for them , and while we wait patiently for the funeral , let us be active in

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 783, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/51/