left Ebrington Street. Whereupon, it was circulated at Horrabridge, that I had offered him a salary. Happily the brother at Horrabridge mentioned it to one, who had just heard from the brother in question, himself, that it was just the opposite.
But to return, to the paragraph. Mr. Soltau stated to Mr. Hill, as Mr. Hill has stated in his tract, (I only add Mr. Soltau’s name, as having now signed this,) that he had said to Mr. Newton that he had participated in the sin of keeping brethren away, and instanced Mr. Bellett, and asked Mr. N. could be now receive him. Mr. N. with some hesitation, said, yes. Mr. Soltau asked him, why there was this change. Mr. N. replied, that the people, he thought were now sufficiently made up to resist his teaching. Let any one only compare this with the eighth paragraph.
As to the ninth. I appeal solemnly to all the brethren who came to enquire. Either their statement to me, that is of several of them, was an invented calumny, or this article is a direct positive falsehood. From first to last, Mr. Newton took this ground. As to the tenth: my answer is, you do. Mr. Newton has published in his thoughts on the apocalypse what, as an expression of thought, is justly so designated. The grand doctrine of Buddhism is that a sort of absorption into Deity is perfect bliss. Now, Mr. N. states that the glorified saints will be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, using the terms. Only they would still worship. And therefore I say, his doctrine does make a sort of Buddhism of Christianity. As to their views and opinions, on open ministry, my object is not to discuss views, but relate facts, here, and I pass them by.
I have only one more statement to allude to. There is a Scripture appropriate to every thing, and I confess the one which at once suggested itself to me was, “The
so; besides which, penny-a-week collections have been a long while carried on, for similar purposes. After I came, the collectors were desired not to go to persons I visited; a foolish direction, for I visited every body. The sisters were the agents in this.
