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Ihe examples we hav « recorded , and favour thia Institution with similar dwt & tlODS . ^ the circulation of the 7 Expqsitio Brevis" has been continued , as there was opportunity . It appears to have been read with interest by the American
Unitarians , and a translation of the historical part of it has been printed in one of their periodical publicatioas . It has occasioned our receiving a Summary Account of Unitarian Affairs in Transylvania , from Sylvester , Unitarian Professor of Theology in the College at Clausenberg , a translation of which will occupy an early Number of the Unitarian Fund Register .
Several letters have been received and published from Tf ^ . Roberts , of Madras , and the accounts they give of the state and prospects of his little Church of Native Unitarian Christians at Pursewaukum is very satisfactory . The obstacles to his printing the Reformed Liturgy , and other tjnitarian works , have ftlso been in a great measure removed , and some have already issued from the pre # s . This worthy man ' s employer being dead , it was thought very /^ indesirable that he should engage in any occupation which would withdraw iujn from the care of the church which has been formed and
supported by his laudable exertions . His wants , for himself at least , are moderate . 60 / . per annum will suffice for his maintenance , and your Comjnittee propose to add to this 40 / . per annum for the expenses of public worship , schools , and printing : an arrangement which they trust you will sanction , and the liberality of the Unitarian Public enable them to carry into effect without at all interfering with the amount usually applied by the Fund to its operations in this country .
The establishment of Unitarian worship , and the proposed erection of an Unitarian Chapel at Calcutta , you have already been apprized of by the publication of a letter to your Secretary from the Rev . W . Adam . That letter contains much which demands your serious consideration , and much which should excite your liveliest gratitude . The progress of that extraordinary man , Rammohun Roy , from Idolatry to Theism , and thence to
rational Christianity ; the spontaneous springing up ( as it were ) of the Unitarian Controversy in tjie newspapers of Hindostan , and the magazines of the Trinitarian Missionaries ; the secession from the ranks of those Missionaries of a minister of talent , character , and piety , and the countenance which hie has received from eminent European residents in the profession of a purer faith , and the practice of a purer worship ; the present comparatively free state of the Press in British India , the active employment of it , by the
Natives especially , and the roused attention of all classes to theological subjects ; all these circumstances combine to inspire the hope that new and splendid triumphs are preparing for genuine Christianity , and that its superior fitness for the conversion of the Heathen will receive a practical demonstration on a grander scale than its most sanguine advocates have ventured to anticipate . That an East India Mission , even on a much more limited plan than that recommendied by Mr . Adam , would be soon productive of most
important results ; that it would shew the reasonableness of religion to possess a mightier force than all that the authority of governments , or the zeal of multitudes , can give to the machinery which they employ for the diffusion of a corrupt system , your Committee cannot doubt . Whether the time be yet come tor them so to extend the views and operations of this Institution , it is for the Unitarian Public to determine ; and the subject will , it is hoped , command that general attention to which it is entitled .
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No . h— -Eartract of a Letter just received from Rev . / ST . Adam , by the Secretary . DearSik , V satire time ago tool : the liberty of addressing- a letter to you a * Siettretary oi tbb Unitarian Ftritd Safety in toncton , the * m * er to * ttlch cqntiiurai tfftfe anxiously * xp ? cw &}> y myudf and friends . Since t & p date of that letter , our prospects amount *^ ty ? 8 ^ % tow fco * improved ; vmongutih * Native * there f » au iA ^ reawiTg pr ' ^ to lrili ^ « f *&<** , Prompt « rt * e *<* m * d / lite ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/20/
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