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to be the Messiah , while the Jews affirmed the Lord Jesus Christ to be ait impostor . Pious soul f As a Christian he could not do otherwise than hold a large body of his fellow-creatures * in utter abhorrence , ' because , though they acknowledge the same revelation with himself * they differ as to some few points of its interpretation ; yet , even these people whom he utterly abhors , he thinks it but just to protect from being confounded with those who acknowledge only a part of the same revelation : for these last , ' utter abhorrence' is not enough ; we know not what words he has reserved to express the bitterness of his feelings towards them .
Protect us from such Christianity ! If this be the figure under which Christianity is to continue to be exhibited by its recognized teachers , there needs no prophet to predict , that , as the religion of the people of this country , it will not last two more generations . The religion which men shall ever again reverence , and shape their lives by , will be , Dr . Grey toay depend on it , another kind of religion than this . 2 . What a Landlord is . —In a debate , a highly important one , raised on fhe Emigration clause of the Poor Law Bill by Mr . Whitmore , who took that
opportunity of pressing upon the House those enlightened views of colonization , which are about to be , for the first time , realized in the formation of a new colony , Major Handley called upon all supporters of the corn laws to oppose emigration , saying that the principle was exactly the same , for the people * ought to stop at home and eat the corn grown in this country . ' The principle is exactly the same , being no other than that the whole people of England are the live-stock of the English corn-growers . And we , m imitation of Major Handley ' s naivete , but reversing the terms of his
proposition , call upon all who do not think it the duty of all English people to * stop at home and eat the corn' grown for them by Major Handley , to vote for the repeal of the corn laws : for it is mere twaddling to affect to see any difference between the two pieces of tyranny . 17 th June . The Ministry . —In common with the remainder of the liberal press , we augured no good from Lord Grey ' s filling up his cabinet with mere stop-gaps , promoted from the lower ranks ; the resistance of the modified cabinet to Mr . Ward ' s motion ; and that unfortunate letter to Lord Ebrington , deprecating what constitutes the sole strength of a reforming ministry .
a * constant and active pressure from without / But our anticipations have been materially changed by Mr . Abercromby ' s accession to the cabinet , and b y Lord Grey ' s noble speech on the Irish Church . How the ' Times * and the Examiner' could possibly see in that speech a truckling to the Lords , passes our comprehension : we see nothing in it but a defianceto the Lords ; and the Lords , we are fully persuaded , see it in no other light . To say that the Tories had the majority in that House , was merely to say * hat Lord Grey could not possibly be supposed to be ignorant of . To say that he knew it , and that knowing it , he should steadily pursue his own course , and that they , not he , had anything to dread from a collision , was not only no
cowardice , but the most triumphant refutation of the charge of cowardice ; the distinctest proclamation that , let them do their worst , he feared them not Lord Grey ' s speech was the bravest act of his ministerial life , next to the framing of the Reform Bill . He said everything which could have been wished or asked for—everything which it had been the reproach of the ministry that it had not dared to say . We were not to expect that he would declare himself an enemy to Church Establishments ; there is no reason to doubt that he is a sincere friend to them . Short of this , what did he not say that could have been said on the occasion by the most determined reformer ? He avowed principles which went to the root of the whole subject . He declared , that if the endowments of the Protestant Establishment exceed the wants of the Protestant population , it is the right and duty of the State to apply the surplus to the general purposes of moral and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/66/
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