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: < ia * cl of Truth ; and we tenderly entreat all our friends who feel the necessity of pleasuring themselves by it ,- and arc in ^ reat degree exemplary pers on s them - selves , to Be . frequently attending x to their res ' tiective gift * , ii * order to he
helpful to others . ; for we are mem tiers ^ one of ariother * if vre are really members of that body of which the head is Christ . This mutual care is a furidajnental principle of our- Christian discipline—this mutual care hath brought us -together at this time .
We have received this year epistles from all the meetings with which this meeting usually corresponds The most remarkable feature in the intelligence ^ vhich . from these and other sources ,
we receive respecting our brethren in North America , 3 s uic great and successful diligence of some <> f their Yearly . Meetings in promoting the civilization of the Indian natives * We find that * our
Meeting for $ ufferings has very properly diffused this intelligence among friends ; and , impressed with a desire of co-operating in a work so benevolent , this Jtneeting has recommended . a
contribution , to assist < o * ir American brethren in their very worihy fmrsuit , ; and we doubt not that friends will cheerfully embrace this opportunity of testifying our unity with their labours . t
Although , as we have already re « marked ^ in the accents which come up from the several " branches of this meeting , we are affected with noting various particulars which we deplore , yet we also are encouraged in observing that the good cause remain © . dear to many ; that fresh instances offer themselves to view" of zeal in the Lord ' s
service ; and that some serious persons are still seeking to be united to us in consequence of coiivincement . The amount of ^ fferings brought in this year is abo ^ t ten thousand three . hundred and fourteen pounds ; of which some part is for demands df a military naturfe ; but the chief part , ecclesiasticaL And , "friends , while we are
endeavouring to bear testimony against war , let us shepw , hy our inoffensive , quist demeanour , that we are truly children of jseace ; and while we refuse the claims of a priesthood from which we conscientiously dissent , let us be diligent irt waiting on the great Minister of the true tabernacle . This you know , friends , is the purpose of our assembling together in silence ; and though there i *
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among us at times but little instrument tal ministry , or none , let not this produce any abatement of diligence in the duty . Instrumental ministry , in the life and power of the gospel , is a great fa * vour to the church ; but the distinguishing excellence of the Christian dispensa * tion is the immediate communication
with our heavenly Father , through the inward revelation of . 'die Spirit of Christ * Let us , therefore , brethren , submit to > the baptizing operations of the Holy Spirit , which purify the soul , and produce the capacity for communion with
God . Now " The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ , and the love of God , and the communion of the Holy Ghost , be with you all . Amen . * . Signed in and on behalf of the Meetr ing , by ARNEE FRANK , Clerk to the Meeting this year . ¦ Unitarianism in Anzeri a * - * -+ ^ N e adverted
to this subject in our last number . Wjs now give further particulars . Our information is dfiriyed from a pamphlet , lately received Jfrom America by the Rev . Theophihrs Lindsey , entitled " J % Wreath for the Rev Daniel Dow , Pastor of a Church , in Thompson , Connecticut , on the Publication of his Familiar
Letters , in Answer to the Rev . John Sherman ' s Treatise of One God in One Person only , &c . By A . O . F . tJtica , z 8 o 6 . " From this pamphlet it iappears that Mr . Sherman is a man .-of distinguished talents , piety , and zeal ; that he wras settled over a congregation . at Mansfield , in Comieciicut ; that by inquiry
he became a Unitarian , and that he published a defence ctf cbe JJnitarian doctrine , in a pamphlet entitled , very appropriately , " One ^ God in £ > ne Person only ; " that from some cause or other , probably on account of Unitarian ism , he thought proper , to leave Mans * field , and " that a mo ^ t respectable ec *
cleiastical council , composed of men eminent for talents and piety , foniMassachussetts and Connecticut , convened at the mutual desire of Mr . Sherman and the Church and Society of Mans * field , had thought it becoming to allow him an honorable dismission , establish *
ing his standing as a minister in the church of Christ , and recommending him rcarnetly to any congregation who Blight desire to make use of him as a minister ;** that a large Christian Society , of whom the writer is one , apd among whom were some Trinitarians ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/49/
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