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Extract of a Letter from Mr. Adam, dated...
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MADRAS. Several letters have been receiv...
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Extract Of A Letter From Mr. Adam, Dated...
_Extract of a Letter from Mr . Adam , dated October 3 rd , 1823 .
I have circulated the Brevis Eooposxtlo here . I have corresponded with William Roberts the last eight months , and generally hear from , and write to him once a month . I should like to visit him and his converts , and should hope that a beginning might be made _mnongst the Europeans ait Madras ;
but I do not think myself justified in going to the expense with our present slender means . I am endeavouring to collect as many books as I can for the formation of a Calcutta Theological _library * In this I have two objects in view . After some time * I h 6 pe to establish several Itinerating or Ambulatory Libraries , as they have been called , both in Calcutta and out of it _. Besides this , I wish to provide myself with the necessary books of reference , 1
in the event of any controversy arising , which I have no doubt will be the case , should I succeed in raising the Chapel . In addition to my own small library , and the books received by Mr . Cumming _, for which accept our best thanks , we have just purchased the Fratres Poloni , Lardner ' s Works , Locke ' s Works , the Theological Repository , Jones on the Canon , and Cappe ' s Critical Remarks . We shall be thankful for any additions you can make to our books * Those in which we are most deficient are the works of the Fathers ,
Greek and Latin ; modern writers on ecclesiastical antiquity ; and works to assist in the criticism of the sacred text , both Hebrew and Greek , and including what is required both for the determination of the text anil its interpretation . Would there be any impropriety in advertising in the Monthly Kepository , that spare copies of such works possessed by any gentleman , will be received by you on our account ?
The Secretary of the Unitarian Fund will have great pleasure in receiving any books for the above purpose , ( at 33 , Threadneedle Street , ) and forwarding them to Calcutta .
Madras. Several Letters Have Been Receiv...
MADRAS . Several letters have been received from W . Roberts since the publication of the last Fund Register . The following are extracts : To the Rev . _W . J . Fox . Reverend Sir , Madras , Ath _April , 1823 . Since I wrote you last , we have been honoured with the visit of an English
American Unitarian gentleman , named Edward Poole , Esq . He came to our chapel , stayed the whole time of divine service on Christinas Day , 25 th December , 1822 ; after that he came to my cottage , set a while , and gave us the news of the Rev . W . Adam ' s change of religious sentiments , and the welfare of Rammohun Roy , and made a donation of fifty rupees . He took with him two copies of our printed Liturgy , and some other Tracts , to America , with
a letter from me to Mr . John Vaughan , Secretary to the first Unitarian Society at Philadelphia , which was done by his kind advice . He likewise advised me to write to Mr . Adam and Rammohun Roy . To the former I did write , and received an answer , containing several queries . To these I have replied , and sent him a copy of the Improved Version of the New Testament , a copy of the Rev . T . Belsham ' s Bampton Lecturer reproved , and a copy of his Plea for Infant Baptism . In last month , I received from him
some American Unitarian publications , with Rammohun Roy ' s Precepts of Jesus , and his First and Second Appeals to the Christian Public in Defence of those Precepts- It _gives me much pleasure and satisfaction to see that Rammohun Roy and his twenty learned Brahmins did not labour in vain in studying the gospel to ascertain whether the doctrine of the Trinity was or was not the doctrine of the New Testament ; and now they have gone through their study , and have published to the Christian world their sentiments that the doctrine of the Trinity is not the doctrine of the Bible , I hope
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1824, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_01061824/page/2/
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