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On New year's Day, complete in one volume, uniform with the Waverley Novels, The GhostHunter and his Family, by the O'Hara Family, forming the first monthly volume of the Library of Original Romance, edited by Leitch Ritchie. The Dramatic Library, comprising all the Standard Dramas in the English language. II. lustrated with Remarks, Critical and Biographical, forming a complete history of the English Stage during its most interesting periods. The first volume will be published on the 1st of Janu. ary, 1833. The Dramatised Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., uniform with the Dramatic Library, is also preparing for publication, and will be ready for delivery on the 15th of January next. 2 Supplement TO THE BRITISH MAGAZINE. DECEMBER 31, 1832. ORIGINAL PAPERS. ON THE OBJECTIONS TO CHURCH ENDOWMENTS. ON a former occasion, I established the justice and legality of the endowments possessed by the church in this empire. It was then shewn, that the Christian ministry is essential to the maintenance of religion; that provision ought to be made by the laity for its support; that permanent endowments are both justifiable and desirable; that the state is bound to afford protection to such endowments, and if necessary to contribute to the support of religion from the public purse; and, finally, that as the property of the church in these countries was lawfully acquired, so it has been rightly and justly possessed even to the present day. It is now intended to notice briefly some of the most common arguments, and expose a few of the most usual misrepresentations advanced by the enemies of the church for the purpose of despoiling and plundering her of possessions, which for so many ages she has continually and rightfully held. The vehement outcry against the payment of tithe on the part of papists and dissenters, is grounded on the principle (as they assure us) "that no man ought to be compelled to pay one shilling for the support of any religious persuasion to which he does not belong." The simple meaning of this is, that the church and every religious sect without exception, ought to be robbed of their property without any compensation. No property whatever for religious purposes can on this principle exist, because there can be no protection for it. Tithe cannot be commuted for land, because rent payers would have the same right to be freed from the necessity of contributing to the support of another persuasion, as tithe payers; nor can tithe or land be sold, and the amount lodged in the public funds, because tax payers would on this principle have a right to be relieved from burdens which contribute to the maintenance of another denomination. There could, therefore, be no commutation of tithe, but the whole property possessed by the church and by all religious societies must at once pass VOL. II.-Dec. 1832. 3 M into other hands. Nor is this all. Every sect, without exception, must on the same principle be plundered of its property. All Dissenting and Romish academies, all charities endowed by any sect, all endowments of chapels, and other institutions connected with any religion, be it what it may, must be swept away; because no compulsion can be exercised on their tenants or debtors, if they choose to embrace a new religion. On this principle, no man ought, at this moment, to be obliged to pay taxes, because a portion of the public revenue is applied to the maintenance of different sects and churches. For example, the College of Maynooth for educating Popish priests, the Presbyterian ministers in Ireland, the three denominations of dissenters in England, the clergy and ministers of several denominations in the colonies, all receive grants from the public revenue, and every man who pays taxes is thus compelled in some degree to support religious sects different from his own. I would ask the maintainers of this principle, whether the property of Maynooth, and of the dissenting academies, is to be confiscated? Are the funds belonging to chapels and religious charities to be annihilated? Do they mean to advocate a total prohibition in future of all permanent endowments for the use of religion, or, in other words, a penal law against all religion? This is the result which must necessarily follow if the principle" that no man shall be obliged to pay one shilling towards the support of another religious persuasion" be constantly followed up. I therefore denounce this principle, as one which leads to absolute robbery of all sects, to the injury and persecution of religion, and to the wildest anarchy in the commonwealth. It is further said, "that however just and allowable the endowments of the church might have been when the whole country was of one religion, yet now they ought to be abolished, because they are an unfair premium on one particular sect, and a hardship on those of different views." If the property of the church ought to be protected when there is but one religion in the country, why should it cease to be protected when another religion arises? Why should the mere existence of a new sect, or of another religion, such as Paganism or Mahomedanism, at once deprive the church of property which had been hitherto justly her's; and that, too, at the very moment when she most needed support? This surely would be conferring a most extraordinary power and privilege on sectarianism,-if a few individuals might, by merely adopting a new religion, at once overthrow a whole system which had been the growth of many years, and which had, up to that moment, been justifiable. It may be said, that the sectarians in England are numerous, and therefore that the preceding case does not apply; but this is merely to change the question, which is not "whether church property should be abolished when there are many sectaries in the country;" but "whether it ought to be abolished when there are any." If you concede that a national system, which has hitherto been just, ought not to be destroyed because a single individual is displeased with it, you must relinquish the principle, that church property should be spoliated as soon as a schism takes place. Nor is it true that the protection of church property is an unfair premium on a particular sect; because that property is derived from the original grants and voluntary liberality of members of the church, and not from the gift of the state; and the church receives no peculiar favour when that property is protected, because it has rightfully come into her possession, and therefore ought to be treated like all other property. Common justice and honesty on the part of the state leads necessarily to this result; and sectaries have no right to say it is any hardship on them, because this property was neither given or at any time possessed by members of their communion. They have voluntarily excluded themselves from its direct benefits, and have therefore no reason to complain. They cannot with either justice or consistency seek to appropriate it to their own sects, and as tenants they cannot object to discharge pecuniary engagements which they have formally undertaken. They do not therefore suffer the least hardship, nor have they any reason whatsoever to complain. It is not unfrequently said by those who advocate the extinction of tithes and other church property, "that the ministers of every denomination ought only to be supported by the voluntary donations of their hearers.' In replying to this, we are happy to avail ourselves of some very sensible observations made by a dissenting periodical. "The principle of voluntary contribution," says the Eclectic Review, "is (strictly speaking) opposed, not merely to state establishments, but to private endowments; and those are at least consistent reasoners, who deprecate all endowments whatsoever for the support of religion as positively or inevitably mischievous. And yet, what but the same voluntary system is the origin of all endowments, not immediately emanating from the state? Endowed charities, endowed colleges, and endowed churches, are all equally liable to be perverted by corrupt management into sources of snug monopoly and private advantage; unless the abuse of trust is prevented by the most vigilant exercise of public opinion, the only efficient executor of bequests to posterity. An endowed church may, or may not be allied to the state by exclusive privileges. Were the political alliance between the church and the state in this country dissolved, the right of the church to retain all its endowments would remain the same, including among its endowments the tithes themselves. That is to say, it would have all the legal right that a public corporation can have to retain the revenues bequeathed to it; and which is considered not only a legal, but an equitable right, till abuse of trust has vitiated the tenure, or some paramount necessity calls for the sovereign interference of the highest national authorities. Church property has nothing in it that distinguishes it from other corporate property, except this ;-that other corporations are sometimes voluntary associations of men for their own own benefit; whereas the church is a corporation endowed, whether by the state or by individuals, for the benefit of others. The property of the goldsmiths' or drapers' company, that of Dulwich college, that of Guy's hospital, that of the Wesleyan conference, or of any dissenting academy, is as sacred, neither more nor less, as the tithes or other revenues of the church."- "We do not say with the writer from whom the above paragraph" (referring to the acts of |