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men to crouch and shiver before the blast . The sufferings and endurance of the Covenanters were well known * When cities afforded them no refuge from persecution , and no temple built by hands was open to receive them ,, they sought amidst moors and mountains a temple formed by nature , \ vhere"they-might" -warship » the- € rod-o & nature as to their consciences seemed
best . Their descendants had not the same species of persecution to dread , but it needed strong hearts to bear up against the storm of falsehood , calumny , and misrepresentation by which Unitarians were assailed . All
the selfish interests and prejudices of society were arrayed against them : but so it always was with truth . The meeting would gladly anticipate the time when Scotland , herself regenerated , should lend a helping hand to the great cause of religious improvement , when once she awakened from
the partial lethargy into which she had been cast by that Galvinistic creed which deadened the moral energies , as ~ the vampire does the senses , of its victims- —when the hearts of her people were no . longer crushed by the yoke of an austere faith—when truth and reason and scripture exerted their real influence—would the descendants
of those men , who , in support of their opinions , had defied the bigot ' s wrath and braved the tyrant ' s fury—whom neither chains , nor imprisonment , nor death could deter- ^ - would their descendants forget the fame of their fathers and the character of their
country—or lend a cold and unwillin g aid in extending" to other and less favoured lands the blessings of a religion which had already dawned in beauty on their own , dispelling the errorsytheintolerance , and the gloom of ages past , and pouring on the
hearts and spirits of the people the full , clear , steady light of doctrines as sublime , as glorious , and as cheerful as they were pure ? With such prospects before them , the sympathy of the meeting in the proceedings of the Scottish Association was indeed sin-
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. cere , and the resolution now proposed to them but expressed that sympathy . The resolution was seconded by M r * J . S . Armstrong . The following resolution was proposed by H . Hutton , Esq ., of Kilrnore , and seconded by Dr . J . C . Ferguson .
~™ 6 . _^ That ~ iri _ e 8 tim ^ spects of pure and undefined Christianity , it is delightful to turn to the several portions of the globe , where it enjoys a peaceful shelter now , and
whence we may anticipate hereafter its rapid and beneficent progress ; that we contemplate with satisfaction its sanetuary in the ancient churches and uni-. versity of Transylvania , its prevalence around the tomb of the Genevese
reformer , and its power in that enlightened portion of the new continent , in which truth , not encountering the hostility of institutions , has no antagonist but the natural forces of error . ' Mr . Carmichael said— ' Mr . Chairman , I have the honour to propose to the consideration of the meeting the resolution I hold in my hand ,
7 . * That we hail with satisfaction every promise that pure religion shall revisit any porticn of that Oriental world which gave it birth ; that we sympathize with every eifort to make . British India the seat of improved institutions and a better faith ; that we have long regarded with deep admiration the philanthropic and enlightened exertions of Rajah Rammohun Roy , to elevate the social and spiritual con * dition of that interesting land ; and that , should he be enabled to visit this , country before he quits the European
shores , we should deem it a high pn vilege to hold intercourse with the illustrious stranger , whose mild but fearless expositions of Christian truth we have read with delight , whose character we have revered from a
distance , and from whose career we anticipate beneficent results to his countrymen and mankind . * * This celebrated man , a few years since , was the worshipper of Brahma , Vishnou , and Seeva , the Indian Tri *
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UNITARIAN CHEONICLE .. 87
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/7/
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