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I do wot think that I shall do much lirtj-m to my countrymen , as some thinks [ 1 hi » ik ] that I does [ do } it alr eadv , while I am guided by such masterly Jhumds .. 1 have wrote , and c'opted it fi * ir , fifty-five sections already , following Dr . Priestley ' s order , except the story of the miraclous [ mi raculous ] birth of Jesus Christ , which I pass by , only stating my objections against it . These notes I rend in our chapel , whenever I am there , instead of sermons . My brethren are
upon intent of copying ancl dividing these notes into small portions , so as to have them in circulation among them , there being nothing of the kind iri our language . " [ After alluding to the difficulty of getting his MSS . printed , and noticing the scantiness of the means of himself and friends , he
proceeds : ] " Therefore , I and my brethren most humbly beg leave to lay our case before your respectable Society at large , as the man of Macedonia , v Acts xvi . 9 , ) to their benevolent considerations . You have , Sirs ,
already begun doing the work of benevolence and love upon us , and may he , who is the * God of Abraham , the fear of Isaac , the strength of Israel * and the excellency of Jacob , put it into your hearts , bless and strengthen your hands to continue it , and consider
us as those who have received their religious birth from . vou . — -t > ot as those who presume upon the goodness of their parents , but as those who earnestly crave whatever assistance you
could afford . In the present state of things you know full well that Unitarian Christians can expect little or no favour from any other quartertherefore , we would beg you to have
an eye over us , that we may not be discouraged . W hate ver assistance your respectable Society can or think proper to afford us , we shall think ourselves very happy with such blesswgs , and thankfully endeavour to make [ the ] best use of it . "
* ' 1 have no fear of Indian Unitarians doing for themselves when they are once set agoing * with necessary means , and multiplied into societies . The voice of Unitarianism is clear , distinct ,
sound , and penetrating into the inmost recesses of the understanding , whenever worldly interest and worldly Swy is [ are ] not in contact . Uniwianism enters with little or no
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resistance , the deepest prejudices and revited [ rivetted ] errors of ages comes [ come ] down before it like the Egyptian frauds of old ( Exod ^ viii . [<})• In my humble opinion [ of ] Unitarian ism only can [ it ] he said that it is like a fire , and that it is like [ a ] hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces .
" in my account , to the iiev . T . Belshani I said , that , after the death of my friend Amiathy , our school was kept by a Trinitarian Christian of Tranquebar . This man died with Chollera Murboos [ Cholera Morbus ] iu last October . After a while the
school is opened again by a young man of our own society . We hare also now another school under our direction , which is also kept by another young man of our society ; but they are poorly paid . May Jehovah , the keeper of Israel , increase our numbers , and make things go easy with
us . " I have nothing further for the present , but to wish and pray that your respectable Society may increase more and more with its unresistabJe , pure
and glorious light , and be the means of spreading it to all tire world , to the honour and glory of the One Great God , our heavenly Father , even the God and Father of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ . Amen . " 1 remain , Sir , your most obedient and most humble servant , William Roberts , at W . Harrington , Senior ' s . " Madras , SOth April , 1819 . "
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Extracts of Letters front the Illinois . 689
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Clapton , Sir , November , 1819 . AS I believe many of your readers take an interest in the progress of the English settlement in the Illinois , and a near relation of mine , who
has just received a letter from a family that has lately arrived there , says [ am quite welcome to publish any part of it I please , I have extracted all the information that it contains respecting the settlement , for insertion in the
Repository , if it meet with your approbation . The family consists of & gentleman and his wife ( an uncle and aunt of Mrs , Jan&on ' s ) and their eigfit children : they occupied a farm for
some years at Bansterad in Surry , neat to W ^ nborough , and were very much attached to Mr . Birkbeck as a neighhour . The letter is written by one of the daughters : it will be ptfrceivyjd
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/37/
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