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attdti inhibit * , 4 > fteg&poral domination * The Paisley Presbytety bM > oerawml the Re v * Mr . Brewster for attending the O'Connell diiuiftr . at Glasgow * The affair was conducted according to the mort approved form of Presbyterian courtesy and justice . No previous notice was given to the object of this premeditated attack . A Dr . Burns made a very vituperative speech , and then
endeavoured to skulk from the responsibility of a regular motion . The accused was present ; a circumstance which is dispensed with by English dissenting Presbyterians ; and there were laymen also , which is always a drawback upon the godly discipline of priests , whether established or nonconformkig . All the clergy voted for the censure , two lay elders against it , and a third took no part . It does not appear what further proceedings are to be taken ; but
they will surely not stop short of degradation , for how can a man be fit to preach the gospel who says grace before O'Connell eats ? Nay , why should such a person be himself allowed to eat ? Let Presbyterianism look to Episcopacy and learn . Our readers have , probably , seen the statements of Mr . Rowlatt ' s case . This
gentleman , about sixty years of age , with a large family , of unquestionable character , and high talent , has been jostled out of a living to which he had been appointed , in consequence of the change of ministry last year . It had been promised to him by Lord Brougham ; his testimonials had received the signature of
the Bishop of London ; nothing remained but mere technicality , which , unhappily for him , was not entirely complete . The practice , in such cases , is to complete the appointment as a matter of course . This was done with another appointment made under precisely similar circumstances ; except that the fortunate person
was a connexion of Sir Robert Peel ' s . But the most striking part of the case is , that the new appointment was made , professedly , ort the recommendation of the JSishop of London , Mr . Rowlatt states , that on his remonstrating he was told that the Bishop did not regard him as the fittest person , in consequence of secret information , the nature and author of which he declined to disclose .
And so ended his hopes of deliverance from the pressure of straitened circumstances , hopes which had been fluctuating for yean , rising or sinking as he had friends who won or lost political importance , and following the vicissitudes of parties , not because
he was himself a party man , but because preachers of religion are dependent , even for the means of comfortable subsistence , Upon those who are . How lone are these monstrosities to be endured , polluting' the name of religion , and corrupting or perverting poll * tical institutions ?
Nicbplnjt Emperor of ail the Russia * , ( Poland included , ) has been jqptaJUng out to the municipality of Warsaw , like an honest man , a bloody tyrant , and a fierce half-Ihsane savage . He told them that the flattering word * thay had prepared to address to him wane all hypoi j ritiwa r a »* i » Jbub * they wt » v i pmA that if they «» dfiwLta show their diic < ftite * t be wold <*> Mign Warsaw to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 762, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/6/
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