_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._ DEAR SIR, As you were so kind as to favour me with the loan of a publication, entitled "_Letters to a Dissenting Minister, by L. S. E., containing Remarks on the Principles of the Sect_," &c., and to request my opinion of its merits and tendency, I have put down what occurred to me on the perusal of some parts of its contents: to have toiled through the whole of it, was a task to which my patience was by no means equal. The first impression produced on my mind was, the total absence of that charity and forbearance so often enjoined in the holy Scriptures. "_Judge not, that ye_ BE NOT JUDGED," was one of the precepts delivered, in his first sermon, by our divine Lord and Master; and in accordance with this direction, when his disciples, instigated by a mistaken regard for his cause, came to him complaining that they had met with some who followed not with them, and inquiring whether they should forbid them, his reply was, "Forbid them not, for he that is not against us is with us." The apostle Paul recommended the same line of conduct towards weak and mistaken brethren, and in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, which abounds with directions as to the conduct of professing Christians one towards another, he sums up the whole by a glowing description of _charity_, as superior to all other graces: "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; thinketh no evil; hopeth all things; endureth all things." To me it appears utterly impossible to reconcile these expressions with the arrogant pretensions and sweeping censures of this writer, not only with respect to the overt conduct, but the _motives_, of those who differ from him, charging them with a sin more heinous than drunkenness, and with being under the influence of the devil, because they cannot see alike with him respecting some of the circumstantials of Christianity, though they may agree as to the essentials. But the censorious language of the writer is not exhausted in the use of the most opprobrious epithets, and such as have hitherto been only appropriate to the vilest of characters; but it is diffused through the pages of his publication, by raking together and detailing anecdotes, with a view to degrade and vilify individuals, and the body of dissenters at large. That there are imperfections and inconsistencies to be found among the professors of religion, must be acknowledged; and has in every age been a source of lamentation to truly pious and devoted Christians; but how different their feelings from those of this clergyman, who endeavours to expose to ridicule the failings of others; who dwells upon them with a kind of malignant pleasure, and thus affords a handle to the common enemies of Christianity!