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meddelanden och aktstycken
Journal did occasionally, rather to expose the vileness of the radical
press than from any love to Methodism, insert refutations but the
paper has comparatively a limited circulation, and no hearty
defence of our position ever appeared there. It would be wrong
however not to acknowledge the readiness with which the Bee gave
insertion to some articles to which the name of Mr. Owen, or that
of the Missionary were attached. On the 8th Dec. we find that paper
dNvelling on the absurdity of urging in one breath the removal of
Scott, and the freedom of Strauss. In reply to many mistatements
regarding the immense sums of mony drawn from Sweden by the
Methodists an audited account was inserted on the nth Feh[r],
shewing that all the income fell £15 short of the expence of
lighting and firing, and on the 22nd Mr. Owen published a noble
declaration, stating that he was the man who obtained the
commencement in 1826 and resumption in 1830 of the Methodist
Mission, and that therefore the wrath displayed against this Mission
ought to be directed against him and not against Scott. »An
humble instrument in the hands of providence (he says) of
introducing into Sweden the Steam Engine, Temperance Societies, and
Methodist exertions, he finds after many years’ observation and
experience no reason to regret either of the movements.» He clearly
demonstrates that the Swedish services, are just as much sanctioned
by the Royal resolution as the English. (No reply ever appeared
to this.)
On the ist March an excellent and pious article written by a
young clergyman appeared in the Bee, shewing that while the
Radical papers professedly contend against Methodism, they actually
oppose all vital Christianity, and on the 10th the same Author in
reply to the Allehanda shews that the doctrines objected to as
Methodist ravings are the very doctrines of Martin Luther.
On the 2 ist March the Bee published an account of an
outrage at St. Catherine’s Church of an equally distressing character,
with that which took place at the Methodist Chapel on the evening
of the same day. The young persons who had been confirmed
were on their departure from their first communion grossly insulted,
and the females especially subjected to the most unbecoming
liberties and obscene language by a crowd of young men gathered
around the door of the Church. This affair affords another and a
most painful interpretation of the riot at the Methodist Chapel, viz.
the utter godlessness of the populace. On the 26th of March the
same paper in considering the question, »what prospect have we
for peace in the Capital?» notices how the occasional disturbances
of the last four years have been produced. On the one hand there
is a public press appealing only to the passions, and on the other
a class of people who in the papers seek only excitement, and
nourishment for their prejudices or predelictions; after a season the
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