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even by a vote of the House of Commons ? Mr . Stanley says , if there is to he a Church Establishment , the churches must be kept in repair by the State ; for ( he actually said it ) keeping the churches in repair , is the meaning of having a Church
Establishment . If that be true , it will be no injury to the Church Establishment not to pay the clergy ; who we hope will give up their revenues , and in return we will engage to vote as much for repairing the churches as will give Mr . Stanley fiill satisfaction . But while the Church retains those national endowments ,
the possession of which is every day more and more strongly contested against her , the least which the people will be content with , even as a temporary compromise , is that she shall not ask from them any thing out of their own pockets besides . She must pay her expenses out of her own funds , which are amply sufficient
to afford it ; or , if that be contested , it is a poor compliment to the Church , if , while the Dissenting sects willingly maintain without any compulsion each of them its own Church Establishment , the sect to which almost all the richest families in the country belong cannot raise by voluntary offerings even a small supplementary contribution towards the support of theirs - If such be the fact , the established sect must be the feeblest and least numerous of
the sects ; and is convicted of only making up its account of numbers , by crediting itself with the great multitude of those who care for no religion at all . The minority against the Ministerial project was 141 ; and the debate was one oY the most spirited of the session . Mr . Whittle Harvey ' s denunciation of the trimming policy of Ministers was
highly effective . Mr . Gisborne , one of the most consistent and earnest reformers in the House , and one who is not , like many of the liberal members , afraid to utter a word which may be unpalatable to the enemies of his opinions , made a simple , straightforward , and unpretending declaration of hostility to the principle
of a Church Establishment . We wonder when any of the little knot of philosophic radicals , those of them we mean who really are of Mr . Gisborne ' s opinion , will have the courage to say as much . We believe they will be nearly the last men in parliament to avow publicly the opinion which they were perhaps the first to adopt .
24 th April . The Beer-houses . —We have not been sparing of animadversions upon a speech of Lord Howick , in a former page of these notes : it is the more imperative on us to acknowledge that he yesterday spoke the first few words of common sense which have been uttered this year , upon a subject on which , during the
whole session , Whigs , Tories , and professed Reformers , have vied with one another in loathsome cant , and truckling to interested clamour . Most truly did Lord Howick say that if there is a real wish to raise the morality of the labouring classes , the way to do it is to retrace that course of bad legislation and bad admmistra-
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The Seer-homes . 369
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/57/
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