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conversion fro m Idola try to tJj ^ ta ^ an Hindoois m p ^ odii ^ edMi AU these , cc ^ si ^ eyations combined , seem imperiously to call on English Unitarians to exegtthenjpelyes apcordiog j # , tliei £ ability , in spreadijp # th $ gogpel in this country , { $ hQpei ^ suggesting the ^ 0 % i lsjiajl , npk be cons $e£ ed presumptuous , or as casting a reflection upoi > your zeal . W & can never be the worse of b < mg ipfy 9 * Wt < tytj r a & d ^! urag ^ o da jt , ; , : * On t & e . ' amffgp ^ Uo ^[ $ &* spmpt ^ ng , like vyliat I have suggested nmy be pjractica $ i I . ^^( i ^^/ fpr . ypi } r : ;^| ilK « Ppe in tl ^ e i ; eanaining jmrt of this letter ,, while 1 attempt [ : ta poi ^ t out some errors into which it appears to me J ^ issionary § 9 ci ^ tie ^ , ^ ave in general fallen , and to suggest , in some particularjs . ^^ tajt has occyffea to npe a $ raogt advisable to > <; be done * J have no vyisjj to dictate , and if 1 had I knojw that I have no righi to expert to be lisieifecfjta . Ypu wiljl , t ^ erefcyre , poaii ^ pi' me as expressing my Qpmiom with frepd ?/ 1 * * becajUse I know you wifl exercise the s ^ ine free 4 oixi jba judging of tfiem . I . With re 3 pect to t ^ qse wh ( t > s ^ iaH be employed a § ^ flissfoparief , they should not only be pious , which i $# f coi ^ r ^ e indispensably but ,, if possible , well versed in literature , both sabred and profane . It nas jtoo ffeqjpputly . happened , that person ^ l ^ ve com ^ j to this couiitry as Mi ^ ipnarfea , whp have
ho other recommeudation or qualification , but th ^ eir piety ^ a f nd . tpe injury whicli is thus done to the Christian cause is incalculable * , flo ^ v \ great . must the injury be , when instead oif teaching others , they need theip ^ elves to be taught the first principles of the oracles of God , and when instead pf being superior , or at least e ^ ual , they ate far inferior in a knowledge of the p rinciples of reasoning and in a general acqu ^; p | ance with science , to , most of those
amongst whom the ) r are called tQ ( ilabQur I 2 . . My next remark inspects the salary of Missionaries . That whicji they receive seldom enables therq to do u > ore than barely subsist , and they are In general left in th ^ greatest uncertainty respecting a provision for thp future > vuats of their w ^^ e ^ and fami lies . This is productive of the very w ^ rst ^ nsequenqes ., itles ^^ isjt ^ oir respecta * biJity , harasses their minds , and in { xfth ' ways impedes their ifsefif ikiesa . Thiaf is not all . From a laudable 4 ^ i ^ to support themselves t and provide for semina rie of ed
their families , they op ^ n s ucation , or engage in other secular pursuits which take up a great portion of their time anfi strength , already sufficiently exhausted by the frature and effects of the . cjimate . ; , By this means also , they come at last to be considered as no better than all others who come to this country in search of wealth and worldly comfort , and not as those who make the spiritual concerns of men , and the propagation of the true religion , the principal objects of , their attention . As a Missionary is expected to relinquish every means of personal and famil y aggrandizement , so both the present and future wants of himself and family should be , not
splendidly , but decently and respectabl y provided for . H & s salary should enable 14 m . to support his family and educate his children , and by gradual savings to lay up a sum which may assist his widow and orphans when he is dead , I proceed on the supposition that he is married / , because it is on many accounts desirable that he should be so ; but whether parried or unmarried , his salary should be such as to enable him to promote his atucies in
theology and in the languages , literature and religion of thi » t country , by purchasing- books ^ and employing learned Natives , and also ta prxwote in a pecuniary way those schemes oif benevolence which atf ^ jeysi ^ wfcere afloat . Two Missionaries thus supported will be more efficient than ten in jthe ordi * nary way , ana it \& my kno \ yle $ ge trf the great evils that have resulted from a contrary course , that haa led me on thi $ subject to be so par ^ ular . 3 . What relation should subsist ^ et ^ pen a Missionary abroad and th ^ yvho support hipiiL . JNcvly the same as between a jjniafeter ^ t tootne $$ &> tjiose who Qp ^^^ A" ' t p 1 *^*^ l ^ Xifi ^^ i ^^^^\^ tS .. ^^ frSh it ' to tii * ui « ei£ eB to iwouF ivh « re and wSeh cmcTaow they tHteh twrf- ' 4 +
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/4/
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