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a genuine product of the involuntary principle : so is the purer minded hero of the < Tenth Haycock . There we have the conscientious Episcopalian , morally as well as physically , the martyr of the system . Both sorts of characters , with the
consequent mischiefs to themselves and others , always have been in the Church , and always will be , so long as it is an Established Church . The proof is as good on one side as on the other . It shows that there are evils in both systems ; and it shows nothing more . It does not strike the balance : it casts no light upon the objects and mode of ecclesiastical reformation .
The evils of both systems are enormous , and , it is to be feared , irremediable ., without much greater changes than either party is likely to be persuaded to adopt . Those of the Church press heaviest , politically ; but those of Dissent are very formidable ,, in a moral and intellectual point of view . Both parties egregiously overrate the advantages to be conferred on society by priests and
preaching . We do not mean that they exaggerate the importance to the nation of spiritual culture ; but that they are incurably addicted to the inefficient machinery , for that end , to which they have been accustomed . In our number for December last , an attempt was made ( vide art . on ' Church Reform , considered as a National and not a Sectarian Question' ) to show
that there are adequate and available resources for the promotion of this essential object , were they but honestly and wisely applied . On some such plan as is there suggested , the evils of both schemes would be mitigated or destroyed ; universal and equal religious liberty would be guaranteed ; the real and solid instruction of the community provided for ; and , that done , pulpiteering , whether
Episcopal or Independent , might be left to find its own level , according to the common principles of demand and supply . But the craft is far too strong ; one portion of it in vested interests , and the other in popular prejudices ; for the practical adoption of schemes tending simply and solely towards the spiritual wellbeing of humanity .
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876 The Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 876, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/58/
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