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sexes. Now, although according to appearance nothing can be more praiseworthy than such philanthropic kindness on their part, yet, after well considering the circumstance, and the good likely to arise therefrom to us and our posterity (and every man who feareth God will well examine it, for it is no trifling thing) it appears likely to injure the principles of the Jewish religion; and thus, instead of producing fruit, we gather shame.

"I, therefore, feel myself under the necessity of warning you, both male and female parents, or guardians, who own the name of Israelites, and wish to be esteemed Members of our Communion, not too rashly to embrace this plan, nor to send your Children to the School establishing by those Gentlemen, until we shall have further and satisfactory information, and clear proofs of its utility, free from all idea of probable and distant evil.

"Then will you obtain the reputation of wisdom in the eyes of the lovers of truth and grace, among the nations; and may it never quit you!"

Abstract of a Second Exhortation delivered by the Rev. Solomon Herschel, at the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, on Saturday, Jan. 10, A. M. 5567, after a Discourse on Jeremiah xi. 18, 19.

"Blessed be the Lord our God, and God of our forefathers! one sole, and indivisible, from eternity to eternity! who has not withheld his grace from us since we have been his chosen people; and who has not suffered any thing to escape our vigilance over the conservation of our holy religion. As I have had occa

sion to exercise on the last holy Sabbath, to forewarn every one of our nation not to send any of their children to the newly-established Free School, instituted by a society of persons who are not of our religion, until we had, by a proper investigation, determined if to be completely from any free possible harm to the welfare of our religion, as hath also been fully stated in a printed abstract published for that purpose; and which, I am happy to understand, has had a proper and good effect.

"Now, having since been fully convinced, through the means of a printed Sermon and Address, published by the Directors of the Missionary Society, viz. That the whole purpose of this seeming kind exertion is but an inviting snare, a decoying experiment to undermine the props of our religion; and the sole intent of this institution is, at bottom, only to entice innocent Jewish children, during their early and unsuspecting years, from the observance of the Law of Moses; and to era dicate the religion of their fathers and forefathers,

"On this account, I feel myself necessitated to caution the congregation in general, that no one do send, or allow to be sent, any child, whether male or female, to this or any such school, established by strangers to our religion; nor, likewise, into any Sunday School of

that nature.

"All such persons, therefore, who shall act contrary to this prohibition, whether male or female, will be considered as if they had themselves forsaken their religion, and been baptized; and shall lose all title to the name of Jews, and forfeit all claims on the con gregation, both in life and death.

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"Every one, who feareth God, is hereby reminded of his duty to warn every one who may be ignorant of these circumstances, and acquaint him thereof, that he may escape the snare laid to entangle him. Thus may we hope to see the days when the name of the only God will be hallowed, and the Lord will be one, and his name one! Amen."

SAMUEL LYNDALL.

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MR. Lyndall has, of late, displeased some of the most fashionable purveyors of evangelical religion; and, owing to this line of conduct, is no longer permitted to,' &c. &c:-Page 192.

Can the Managers of O***** S***** chapel deny the charge-or, will they get the Reverend John Townsend to exonerate them from it?--that they actually did, some months since, dismiss the Rev. Mr. Lyndall, (formerly engaged by them as quarterly lecturer), because he was too plain for their taste, and, besides this offence, had ventured to hint, during his last sermon, some doubts whether the true gospel was often preached to them? Behold one effect of that power, springing up in the churches,' which Dr. Collyer well regrets! Look at the situation in which these sectarists would place the ministers whom they hire.

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Must not such preachers be dumb dogs,' or else bark on the pinch?

What is the revolution which time hath wrought in the place where Toplady once was heard?—Is the same gospel there preached as it was? Are the discourses of Mr. Lyndall, or the Managers of this Chapel, to blame? "Being at Woolwich, a few days since (July the 4th, 1810), and understanding that the Annual Meeting of the Ministers in Kent (Annual Association of Independent Ministers) was to be holden in that place, and also that some of the Dons were to exhibit on the occasion, and being disengaged from business," writes a Correspondent in the Gospel Magazine for August, "I attended on the performances. The first harangue, that I heard, was from a Mr. Townsend (Pastor of Jamaica-Row Meeting in Rotherhithe, and leading Minister of Orange-Street Chapel), in which there were some good things jumbled with a profusion of pernicious stuff, &c. &c. I confess, Sir, here was enough to satisfy me, or, rather, to send me away, dissatisfied, and pitying a crowd of blind sinners, who seemed tamely to follow the directions of a blind guide." "Now, from this specimen of divinity," continues the same correspondent, commenting on the Ministers who preach in connection with the Rev. Mr. Townsend, "we may fairly infer that the light is darkened in their Tabernacle, and that the veil remains untaken away in the reading of Moses, every Sabbath there; that the veil of the covering is still cast over the face of the people: that, under such letter-preaching, the Ignorant will remain ignorant; the Formalist will settle on his lees, content, without feeling the power; the Pharisee will swell with

a vain conceit of his supposed excellence; the Hypocrite will be made two-fold more the child of hell, and real mourners must be made more sad; Inquirers will be directed the wrong way; the bruised-reed will be ground between the upper and the nether mill-stone of duties and curses, and the hungry soul starved to a mere skeleton; and, if that Scripture be true- there shall be like priest like people,' truly they are in a pitiful plight there; all groping in the dark, as men without eyes. And, what must the end of these things be?"

What must we, indeed, think of this? If Mr. Townsend should happen to be a motley preacher of the Gospel of Christ; if he should turn out to have 'jumbled a profusion of pernicious stuff, with some good things,' and if also, with this perverseness of mind, he is known as a favourite minister with the Managers of Orange-street Chapel, why, then, the wonder ceases, strange as it seems, that they dismissed Mr. Lyndall from the Chapel of Orange-street. He was too blunt, stern man! and lost his post. All must be calm, and soft, and still. Religion must, at home, lean on the arm of her Managers;' nor can she stir thence, but as sent by her Directors!!' Mechanics and speculators must manage and direct our theologians and missionaries! The cause of Mr. Lyndall's dismissal is but too plain. 'Prophecy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophecy deceits,' is the language of ❝ the rebellious children' of all ages and nations and tongues of the rebel offspring of Evangelicism, as well as of Judaism.

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