Banbury!—The reverend John Church has just denied that he was “driven out from thence;” but what will he say now, when “The Rod in Pickle” is twitching his hide, and making him writhe at every stroke? Although, from feelings of pity and mingled shame, the Congregation at Banbury would “not pretend to charge Mr. Church with having actually, and in the full extent of the thing,” anno 1808, “been guilty of the odious offence laid to his charge,” yet, “from the whole tenor of his conduct, his letters, and various things that appear in evidence,” they declared they were then “constrained to believe that he had discovered a most detestable propensity that way,” adding, that “such was the abhorrence in which the crime he was accused of was held by the people in Banbury, that, was he to presume to return there, neither his person nor the Meeting would be in safety.” Mr. Church will, we are aware, try to overwhelm us with antinomian {5} bulls; but as his faith is not likely to remove mountains, though it may raise some, we are content to bear the entire weight of woe. Conscious that we shall have fulfilled our duty to man—doubtless to woman—we shall lie down content. We commisserate “poor human nature,” quite as deeply as the reverend Mr. Church, but, then, our pity is limited to natural sins. Offences of another description we confess we cannot consent to tolerate. This avowal may seem somewhat harsh to such persons as the Reverend John Church, but we cannot help making it. “Abusers of themselves!”—Has the reverend John Church forgotten what awaits such men? AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE _Cause of Mr. Church Leaving Banbury_, IN OXFORDSHIRE. BY THE REV. T. LATHAM, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. IN the month of August, 1808, application was made to me by two Ministers in London, to supply the place of John Church, at Banbury, without being informed of the reason of his so suddenly leaving. As I was an entire stranger to Mr. Church and the people at Banbury, I had no reason to inquire, or suppose that any thing unpleasant had occurred. However, about the middle of the week after my first Sabbath there, Mr. Lambart, the acting Deacon of the Church, brought me a letter, directed to his care for me, from Mr. Garrett, of Lant-street Meeting, {7} in which he mentioned the steps Mr. Church was taking to get into Chapel-court Meeting, to the injury of Mr. Nivin, the Minister of that place, and also to the prejudice of himself, Mr. Garrett. In this letter Mr. Barrett hinted at the cause of Mr. Church’s leaving Banbury, and earnestly wished me to send him and Mr. Nivin the particulars.