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The Bible advocate, and precursor of unity [ed. by D. King].
The Bible advocate and precursor of unity - ed. by D. King Author:David King 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... more » 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,« less