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through successive ages, leaves the rank 
never unsupported. The possessors of. 
this are far more respectable than other 
persons, since it gives them a_ sort of 
Number of Churches.—-Study of Hebrew. . 
137 
man’ in black opened the door, and 
walking up, addressed him with a very. 
consequential air, * Pray, sir, who may 
you be?” “Who am I? Sach a otie, . 
prescriptive right over -their tenants, - and come to preach for your lecturer this 
which money cannot purchase: it is by 
the landed interest. that a man can.be 
fairly and honorably retuyned to parlias 
ment: it is by the landed interest that 
that most useful body the militia of the 
kingdom is at once raised, headed, and 
maintained; and services of this latter 
nature are so well understood, that the 
ministerial. papers have announced the 
intention -of creating several gentiemen 
of Ireland baronets, on this very account, 
I hope-I have now = shown that the 
acquirement of an hereditary distinction 
is to be sought by, and wil! be given to, 
those who have any way beuetited their 
country; and that the attainment of .1t 
even without the claim of reward, may, 
not in every, case 
proceed from vanity. 
Aug. 20th. “i 
Te 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE attention of the levislature, hav- 
ing recently been called to the num= 
g y 
ber of licences, granted under the tole- 
ration act, you willhave in remembrance, 
that when Lord Sidmouth niade bis mo- 
tion on the subject, his Grace of Canter- 
_bury remarked, that “from his own ex-« 
perience, in two dioceses, he was induced 
to believe the dissenters had increased 
very much, particularly in the last few. 
years: one cause he conceived to be, the 
want of churches to contain the people ; 
for the fact was, our population had far 
Qutgrown our machinery.” ; 
atternoou.” There was nobody here - 
last Sunday,” said the man, “and 1 see 
nobody to-day.?? Upon which, taking 
up his hat, he stalked off with digiity, 
saying, ** Let us depart 10 peace’|;” and" 
left the clergyman overwhelined with ine 
dignation. . 
Woburn, Bedford. 
Sept. 13,1809. - 
, 
. Your's, & cy, 
M. Castiepen,.” 
EO : 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
N Jooking over the other day, an Fx. 
planation of the Church Catechisni,; 
published in London, lately, by the books. 
sellers to the Society for the Propagation, 
of Christian Knowledge, and. taugist in, 
many of the most respectable schools 
and academies about London; in, page 
16 of the thirty-eighth and last edition, 
I find, immediately following the question, 
“ What:is meant by renouncing hin?” 
(meaning the devil) this answer: . “ Tha 
renouncing all familiarity and: contracts 
with the Devil, whereof witches, and 
conjurers, and such as resort to them, 
are guilty.” . | eid 
There seems to me, Mr. Editor, somes 
thing extremely improper in this answer ; 
as it tends to make children believe in 
the existence of witches, a doctrine which, 
except by a few lowand ignorant people, 
is now universally exploded... It is but of 
small importance, that the reverend aus 
thor, Mr, Lewes, minister of Margage,: 
Kent, and the publishers, can quote the 
Now, Sir, will you insert the following history of the witch of Endor, in Ssup- 
fact? On Sunday afternoon, the 3d of this 
- month, 1 went into one of the central 
port of this doctrine, For that passage, 
it is well known, having puzzled our best 
churches of the metropolis, and in this biblical critics, is to this day. ot weil 
Jarye handsome pile, no more than three 
women, myself, and another individual in. 
the aisle, formed the congregation. The 
respectable mivister was jn his sermon, 
and, frony what I heard, I thought it des 
understood. However, this much is cere 
tain respecting it: that the term, there 
translated welch, does not cal} up to the. 
mind of one, in the least acquainted with 
the original, that catalogue of crimes for 
served a better and larger audience. Bat “which poor old women in' this country, 
even one of these three women was fast Ul! about acentury ago, used to be eons 
asleep ! 
A minister went one day toa certain 
demned to the flames. ‘The truth 13, 
were those, who quote and diag in Scrip 
church in the city, te officiate for the lec- ture in support of this, that, and the 
turer. 
Afier a walk of two miles, he other doctrine, to study, even witha mon 
entered the church a few minute’ before, derate degree of care, the language of 
the ‘time, and was surprised not to sev 
an individual in the church except the 
boy who was tolling the bell, with the 
surplice on his arm. Lie went into the 
yestry, and had just sat down, when a 
Monrity Mac. No, 196. 
Scripture, and to pay any degree of ate 
tention to the laws, customs, manners, 
and mode of thinking, to which the sa. 
cred writers not unfrequently refer, they 
would find, that, instead of supporting 
! be] 
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