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CLIFFORD, JOHN H. 



COLLINS, MORTIMER. 



Resolved, 1. That sectarianism is to separate into 

 sections, or separate parts ; what belongs together. 



2. That all Christians in every place do belong 

 together, and to separate them for any cause, or by 

 any means, is sectarianism. 



3. That the genius and spirit of the gospel, as 

 well as the letter of the Bible and the history of the 

 primitive Church, proclaim the great but simple 

 truth that the Christians of the place are rightfully, 

 and, in fact, by divine ordination, the real visible 

 church of the place. 



4. That all the Christians, whether in or out of 

 sects, are required by the life Christ has planted in 

 them, and by the prayer of Jesus, and the teachings 

 of the New Testament, and their love to Christ, and 

 their love to each other, and their love for the salva- 

 tion of men, to meet together, not to make a church, 

 but to obey God, and do the duties of a church as 

 taught in the gospel. 



5. That all religious associations built upon a nar- 

 rower basis than that which teaches and treats all 

 the Christians of the place as equal brethren of the 

 one church of the place, which present creeds, tests. 

 and usages which exclude a part of the Christians of 

 a place, are not built after the New Testament 

 model, and have no claims to be regarded as 

 churches of Christ, simply because they have 

 Christians among them. 



6. That the Church is a divine institution, is God- 

 made, is spiritual ; not mechanical, not human, not 

 man-made ; and God alone can place members in his 

 Church ; and as every one wlio truly loveth is born 

 of God and, therefore, a member of his Church 

 therefore it does not depend on our doctrinal views, 

 baptism, votes, or enrollment, but on a loving and 

 obedient heart. 



7. That the evils of sectarianism admonish us of 

 the great importance of scattering light before the 

 whole world on this subject, calling all Christians 

 to repent of this sin, and put it away, and return to 

 the primitive spirit and practice of the church 

 gathering, as taught in the gospel. 



The leading principles of the Christian 

 Union (South) are set forth in the following 

 extracts from the Declaration of Principles : 



We may well afford to dispense with all those 

 doctrines and tenets which set the brethren at 

 variance, and to take the following primary consti- 

 tution as the groundwork of our organization, viz. : 



1. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only head of the 

 Church. The Pope of Rome, or any other pretend- 

 ing to be the head thereof, should be regarded as 

 that man of sin and son of perdition who exalteth 

 himself above all that is called God. 



2. The name Christian is the only appellation 

 needed or received by the Church. All party or 

 sectarian names are excluded as being unnecessary, 

 if not hurtful. 



3. The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of the Old 

 and New Testaments, is a sufficient rule of faith and 

 practice. 



4. Christian character, or vital piety, is a just, and 

 should he the only, test of fellowship, or of church- 

 membership. 



5. The right of private judgment and the liberty 

 of conscience is a right and a privilege that should 

 be accorded to, and exercised by, all. 



CLIFFORD, JOHN H., was born in Provi- 

 dence, R. I., January 16, 1809 ; died at New 

 Bedford, Mass., January 2, 1876. He gradu- 

 ated at Brown University in 1827, and began 

 the practice of law in New Bedford, where he 

 afterward resided. He soon entered upon an 

 extensive practice, and attained the foremost 

 position at the bar. He represented New 

 Bedford in the Legislature in 1835, and was 



subsequently President of the Senate. In 1849 

 he was appointed by Governor Briggs Attor- 

 ney-General of the State, and in the course of 

 his official duties conducted the prosecution of 

 Prof. Webster for the murder of Dr. Parkman. 

 He continued to act as Attorney-General till 

 1853, when he was elected Governor. He was 

 again Attorney-General from 1854 till 1858. 

 In 1867 he retired from the legal profession, 

 and became President of the Boston & Provi- 

 dence Railroad Company. In 1859 the degree 

 of LL. D. was conferred on him by Brown 

 University. For several years ex-Governor 

 Clifford was President of the Board of Over- 

 seers of Harvard University. 



COLERIDGE, Sir JOHST TAYLOR, a British 

 lawyer and writer, born in 1790 ; died Feb- 

 ruary 11, 1876. He was a nephew of Samuel 

 Taylor Coleridge. At Corpus Christi College, 

 Oxford, where he received his education, he 

 was a fellow-student of Dr. Arnold. He was 

 elected a Fellow of Exeter College in 1810, was 

 called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1819, 

 going to the Western Circuit ; became a ser- 

 geant-at-law in 1832, was appointed one of the 

 judges of the King's Bench, and upon retiring 

 from the judicial bench in 1858 was created 

 a Privy Councilor. He showed considerable 

 literary acquirements at an early age, and hav- 

 ing edited the Quarterly Review for some time, 

 he continued to contribute numerous articles 

 to it until his death. He published an edition 

 of Blackstone's "Commentaries" with notes 

 (1825), and a "Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, 

 M. A." (1869, third edition, 1870). 



COLET, LOUISE REVOIL, a French authoress, 

 born September 15, 1810; died March 10, 1876. 

 In 1835 she went to Paris, where she married 

 Hippolyte Colet, a musical writer and com- 

 poser. After his death in 1851 she turned her 

 attention still more diligently to literature. 

 She received the prize for poetry of the Insti- 

 tute four times for the following poems : " Le 

 Musee de Versailles " (1839), " Le Monument 

 de Moliere" (1843), " La Colonie de Mettray" 

 (1852), and " I/Acropole d'Athenes " (1855). 

 Besides these four she also published tbe fol- 

 lowing poetical works: "Fleur du Midi" 

 (1836), "A ma Mere" (1839), "Penserosa" 

 (1839), "LesFunerailles de Napoleon" (1840), 

 "Le Marabout de Sidi-Brahim " (1845), "Re- 

 veil de la Bologne " (1846), " Les Chants des 

 Vaincus" (1846), and " Le Poeme Femme " 

 (in three parts, ISSS-^e). Among her prose 

 works, which comprise novels, traveling ad- 

 ventures, and personal reminiscences, are the 

 following : " La Jeunosse de Mirabeau " (1841 ), 

 "Les Cceurs brises" (1843), "Deux Mois 

 d'Emotion " (1843), " Folles et Saintes " (1844), 

 "Deux Femmes celebres" (1846), "Madame 

 Hoffmann-Tauska" (1854), "Promenade en 

 Hollande" (1859), "Deux Mois dans les Py- 

 re'ne'es " (1859), and " Naples sous Garibaldi " 

 (1861). 



COLLINS, MOETIMEE, an English poet and 

 novelist, born in 1825 ; died July 25, 1876. He 



