The Bible Advocate, and Precursor of Unity [Ed. by D. King].
by David King (9781458862105)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i THE "ADVOCATE"EXPELLED FROM A READING ROOM. An extract from a letter will give an exhibit of the great care taken by the ministers of our day to exclude every ray of light which offers to lend its influence to irradiate the public mind as to their exact standing. " I think I have informed you that the Advocate has been presented to the Young men's Institution in connection with the Independants of Shrewsbury. Before I attempted to offer it I enquired whether the pastors had the control of the library, expecting opposition if such should be the ease. Upon being informed that they had not I sent the two first numbers. On the last page of the first were some queries concerning the clergy, and on the first page of the second the " Origin of the Clergy." These short but cutting articles have expelled it. I enquired the reason of its expulsion, and was informed that Mr. T., a young minister, did not like A. Campbell's views. He had read his works. He found no particular fault in the magazine, but did not approve of Mr. C.'s views. Well, I said, Mr. T. did not like,

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