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The general care of the fociety in the 
education of their youth, and that ide 
even the children of the poorest among 
them, ‘¢ may freely partake of | learning; 
to fit them ae the bufinefs cf life in 
which they are likely to be employed,” 
is a fufficient proof that knowledge real- 
ly ufeful is by no means undervalued by 
them. And I queftion if, on impartial 
enqu HEY, there will be Gad in any reli- 
giqus fuciety a greater proportion of 
members capa able of reading and writing 
or who haye a more general knowledge 
ef men and things, eee 
As G. W. has not fpecified what 
thofe “*dof&trines of Chriftianity con- 
nefted with its very eflence’® are, which 
he apprehends, will not bear the {crutini- 
zing difcuflions of increafing knowledge, 
ican only fay, that till they are ftated, 
it'can hardly be expected they will he 
abandoned, however “¢ noxious,” on in- 
imuations teh are not underftood. But 
poiibly, if opportunity for difcufling 
them were 2fforded, it would aoe that 
the tenets alludea to are not acknowledg- 
ed by the fociety, and prove to be << only 
the Wes of unfortunate inquiry’’ in the 
ebjector. 
But be thatas it may, as Chriftianity 
rightly embraced and ff fully ! fubmitted to, 
_3s the perfeGtion of morality, both G.W. 
and the obj gS of his animadverfions, 
would do well to bear in remembrance 
this fentiment of the poet : 
For modes of faith let angry zealots fight, 
His can’t be wrong whofe life is in the right. 
- | ATTICUs. 
34th 12th Month, 1798- 
P.S. I find G. Dyer (in his depter of the 
Taft month) has been induced in his P S$. 
to quote an extraé& from a letter addreffe 
fo the fociety § of the people called Quakers,’ 
I 1793, figned Pacificus; wherein the ‘ moft 
active ioe approved members of that fo- 
ciety’ are faid to have lent money to go- 
werament ‘ for the avowed purpofe of active 
eperation againft the enemy;’ at the fame 
time others were difowned for mae 
guns in their fhips for defence only. I 
fully believe this not to have been the cafe, 
dt is true, that perfons, actual members of 
the fociety, have been concerned in loans; 
Lut thefe were generally fuch as had for- 
faken its teftimonies in other refpeéts; and 
a knowledge of what had been, induced the 
yearly meeting in 1790, on the profpeét 
of a war,.to iffue the following advice, 
which I think effectually clears the body 
from the charge of countenancing war by 
loans. 
Mr. David Savile's Letter to Mr. Hor fez. 
{Jane 
«€ If any” be concerned in fabricating or 
felling inftruments of Wary let them betreat= - 
ed with in love; and if by this unreclaimed, 
fet them be farther dealt with as thofe whom 
we cannot own. And we intreat, that when 
warlike preparations are making, friends be 
watchful leit any be drawn into loans, arm- 
ing or letting out their ihips or veffels, or 
otherwilé promoting the deftruétion of the 
human fpecies.”’ 
It may probably eventually foare your’ 
pages to fay, that one, alfo a member, had a 
manufactory of arms, for which, though it 
long remained a deferved fttgma, he was 
within'thefe few years difowned Ina fo- 
ciety where birthright gives admiffion, un- 
converted brethren mutt be expect aiag and for» 
a time borne with. 
. —= 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HROUG H the medium of a publica. 
tion which has already admitted the 
fabjedt ; I beg leave to .addrefs the fol- 
lowing ‘lines to the Rev. Mr. Horfey of 
Northampton, perfuaded that while in- 
ferting them you will deem yourfelf com- 
plying with the fpirit of that gentleman’s 
invitation as well as with the requeit of 
Sir, your’s refpeétfully, 
Davib SaviLE, 
r o the Rew. Mr. Horfey of Northampton. 
REV. SIR, 
IT was not to be expected that the 
a ee: in the Miflionary Magazine, re- 
lative to the diffolution of the Northamp- 
ton aiadels iy, would find an approver in 
you. But there are truths which how- 
ever unwelcome to fome, demand a ge- 
neral diffufion. ‘The ae is ditt 
folved—I am well pleafed with the event 
—and additionally pleafed that my ef- 
forts were fuccefsful in haftening it. eee 
complain of mifreprefentation, and round- 
fy affirm, what I did not expect, that you. 
habitualiy recommended to the ftudents 
afyftem in full coincidence with the will 
of the founder, and the defign of the in- - 
{titution. Mr. Horfey, are you ferious ? 
What the will of the fouplice aaee the 
defign of the inftitution require, the pub- 
lic are not to learn. It is exprefsly ftated 
that the fudents fhall be inftruéted agree- 
ably to the doétrines of the Affembly’s ° 
Catechifm. Whether the doétrines be 
true or falfe is not here the point in dif- 
pute. But we afk—is it ingenuous ina 
man to hold a fituation which profeffes to 
inculeate them, while the’heart is known 
utterly to difclaim them: From this 
charge 
