Whilst looking through the first number of Mr. Clement Shorter's new illustrated paper The Sphere a few days azo, I noticed In the literary column a hitherto unpublished letter from the Into Dr. Mar tinean which filled me with so much surprise that I cannot forbear alluding to it. Tu common, as I believe with most people, I always regarded that most learned divine asa Unitarian. Tu all his obituary notices I see that term applied to him, but according to this letter such was not the case. He states he was ordained by the Presbytery of Dublin and that be sat for Uuree years in the synod of Munster—this we know; but he goos on to. tell us that the word Unitarianis not Ecclesj iastical at all, but Theological, denoting a doctrinal opinion without any consideration of church fellowship. He says h" never accepted any pastoral charge without first The day after I sent you my last, letter, ascertaining that it was offered by a people not only individually free but resolute to guard the place of worship from the enthralling influence of a doctrinal name. ay. Personally I have felt for a. If asked, it was no new thing for him to say he knew nothing of any Unitarian church in England, and if there was such thing he could not belong toit. Orthodoxy axa condition of fellowship in the Christian life and worship is equally ropu'sive to me whether it be my doxy or your doxy." To me this explains a great deal in his writing which T never quite understood when looked at from the standpoint of what we usually understand by Unitarianism,
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