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the claims of the Church of England , that we can scarcely think k worth while to open the discussion . Michaelis , in his Commentary on the Laws of Moses , is referred to by one of our Correspondents ; Josephus by another ; and the authority of both is against Theta . By means of a Bible with marginal references , those of our readers who are so disposed can easily possess themselves of the Scrintural evidenceand form their own
, opinions . The parallel between Jewish and English tithe so totally fails , as to render it utterly worthless as an argument . One discrepancy is thus indicated by a Correspondent , who signs himself ? , and there are several other differences equally bearing upon the subject : —
4 In considering the revenue of the Levitical order , we must , however , take into the account the circumstance , that they were not merely priests , employed in the service of religion alone . They were also 4 < The physicians , the scribes and keepers of the genealogical registers , the mathematicians ; ' * in short , they formed the literary tribe in whom existed all the knowledge which the nation possessed , and to whom the people must look for every improvement which might be expected in literature , science , and the arts . In all countries and in all ages , services of this kind are remunerated at a higher rate than the mere labour of the working man which a wiser head directs ; and in the case of the Jews , the remainder of the nation was principally employed in agriculture , the wages of which are universally lower than those of any other employment . The Mosaic tithes then , and other sources of revenue to the Levitical order , though considerable in amount , did not , however , form an unreasonable remuneration for the important services which the nation received from this , its literary tribe . * The Clergy of the Establishment would be as little disposed , as they are qualified , to claim the remuneration of the Jewish Levites , if the performance of similar services were an essential condition . Ed .
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Uncivilized Christians and Savage Indians . —The * Times' of November the first gives extracts from Buenos Ayres papers , showing , that the warfare between uncivilized Christians and savage Indians , in which little quarter is given , still continues as rife as ever . One account coolly tells how ' Estanislao . Lopez , the governor of the province of Santa Fe , at the head of two hundred Gauchos and
thirtyfour Abipones , or Indiana of the missions , surprised the Indian tolde * rias ( skin tents ) killed forty-two warriors and took four prisoners , together witli two hundred women and girls of all ages , all their horses and black cattle , and two flocks of sheep . ' All this wholesale work is recorded precisely in the tone of a mercantile price current .
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Note on Jewish Tithe . 855
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NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 855, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/51/
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