“Reverend Sir,—A gentleman, who officiated for me a few Sundays ago, took occasion to direct an attack against those persons, who used the liberty, which, by undoubted right, they possess, of leaving the Church of St. Nicholas, for the advantage of being your auditors. I beg leave to assure you that such use of my pulpit was as disagreeable to me as it was unexpected. I wish my pulpit to be a place for delivering exhortations, relative to the great principles of our common Christianity, and not for uttering harsh or angry animadversions on the tenets or the conduct of those who may conscientiously dissent.—I am, Rev. Sir, with much respect, your obliged servant,
