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Providence Chapel; that, the glory of this chapel being greater
than that of the first, the prophet's words would have been ap-
plied literally to "the glory of this latter house;" and that,
lastly, knowing how tire destroyed the first chapel, the promise,
of peace" and in this place will I give peace"—would haie been
interpreted as• of course belonging to the present Chapel in
Gray's-Inn Lune. Hearers such as these soon found out their
mistake. Evangelical yet judicious, the preacher for once dis-
appointed the lovers of pulpit; eccentricity, and the patrons of
pulpit absurdities. There was much that called for thought;
there was nothin at which to laugh. Huntington seems so far
to have amended ! •

Every thing relating to such an Individual as glier.sAss Hots.
TlNo•rort will one day be deemed of importance to the history
of religiOn in this kingdom. Fully impressed with this view of
his clerical character, I have thought it incumbent on me to re-.
cord the recent opening of his new I'rovidence Chapel. The
• thing is done, and was Well done. He chose his time.
'He opened his present chapel, where he seems likely to
have peace, the very Sunday before Midsummer-day, ex•
actly- at the point of time when the admissions to it ought to
be renewed, anti thus re•colltxted his congregation before Mi•
chaelmas, without losing time. lie opened this chapel too, ex-
actly at the point of time when an extraordinary competitor
(hereafter to be noticed) had made an unexpected appearance
in our metropolis, and was actually on the eve of dividing his
flock! Congregations frequently forsake declining Ministers.
It was an apostolic caution, respecting Timothy, " let no -maa
despise thy youth:" let none neglect thy grey hairs, respecting
Ministers, caution inculcwes to this age. Genius is entitled
to respect Huntington has his kmitatorii but time will not
readily find his successor.
" I never read, in all the Bible," says Mr. H., " that the
poor eat up the rich; for I think every poor man in England
will hold with me in this particular, that the rich are agreed to
keep that person poor who is poor." Hu was posr once : he is
rich now. Poverty and Mr. W. Huntington have long since
• separated. " When my coach came home," B;rys Mr. H., " and
my family had been once or twice to chapel in it, and the report
of it had gone abroad, it was truly laughable to see the.sorrow,
the hard labour, and sore travail, that fell upon some poor souls
on the account of it," &c. And it is " truly laughable," one
may add, to witness when his coach now comes to take theta
up, the avidity with which the Mob, watching at the door of hie
chapel, wait to Fee his family and himself gtt into the coach,
and drive off! 'llia gr,'..at wonder lasts beyond nine days.
024 maws.

RECANTATION.

• gi Dublin, July 6, 1111.
" A few days since, the Society for Discounte-
nancing Vice, which chiefly consists of Clergymen
of the Established Religion, were met together,
when the Professor of the Scriptures (the Rev. Mat•
thew Crowley), from the Roman Catholic College
of Maynooth, requested an interview with them;
which being obtained, lie stated that his object was
to declare his intentions of renouncing the errors of .
Popery, and to become 'a Member of the Church o;
England, and that 150 of his pupils were ready to
follow his example. The Society inforrned him,
that the busineiis was inconsistent with the objects
of their Institution ; but that after the. Meeting
should be closed, they would, as private- individu-
als, communicate with him. 11.` conference took
place accordingly."
44 Yesterday morning the Rev. Matthew• Crow.
ley, Professor of the Sacred Scriptures, at the
College of: Maynooth, read his recantation at
Christ Church Cathedral.