tlement of the place, provided the committee, within three years, have there at least forty families, with an Orthodox minister.' Also provided a lot as large as may be convenient, in their judgment, be laid out to the first settled minister; also a lot for the ministry, and another for the use of schools. With modifications, this was the provident, careful method of founding towns very early adopted" (p 149). "Following still the precedents of the ecclesiastical law of England, all landholders, resident or non-resident, Christian or not Christian, were taxed, though they never saw the minister or entered the meeting-house. All corporations holding lands within the parish were also taxed for the support of public worship until 1831. The Court listens to no arguments of counsel founded on the fact that the chief design of public worship was to save souls; the Court rather gave heed to the east parish of Amesbury, that so far as the community is concerned, public, religious, and moral instruction is intended for the prevention of crimes, not the salvation of souls. After 1811 the non-resident's land-tax went to support the minister of his denomination, if there was one in the town" (p. 27). advance the settlement of the place, provided the committee, within three years, have then at least forty families, with an Orthodox minister'; and provided a lot of convenient size and location be laid out to the first settled minister, and also a lot for the ministry, and another for the use of schools. This shows the care with which the people, from a very early period, secured the maintenance of the institutions of religion" (p. 176). "All landholders, resident and nonresident, Christian and unchristian, were taxed, though they never saw the minister, or entered the meeting-house; and all corporations holding lands within the parish were also taxed, upon the principle that, so far as the community were concerned, public, religious, and moral instruction was intended for the prevention of crimes, and not the salvation of souls. After the year 1811, the non-resident's landtax went to support the minister of his denomination, if there was one in the town" (p. 177). A NOTE is due here to Dr. W. M. Thompson in explanation of a reference (in the July Number of the Bibliotheca Sacra, p. 519) to his Land and Book, I. 544. He was understood to concede to Dr. Robinson his two positions on the point there in question, and to deny only his conclusion from them. 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