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aife united to promulgate , and when { key are understood as ureunderstand them , we ^ capnqi . brfiere that ti ^ re w ^ ll be so muck blindness ia p rej udice
or penrerseness in bigotry , as to make them the subject of reproachful denunciations . Tney make " for p eace , and righteousness , and love , and Christian fdftowship .
The means of knowledge which the Managers possess , have made them acquainted with several facts respecting the present state of Unitarianism abroad , and they are happy to say that their information m encouraging-. In England , there are nearly 4 dO re&alar
Unitarian congregations , and numerous societies for publishing and distributing books and tracts . In Scotland several churches have been established , and others are forming ; and from Ireland , the missionaries send
favourable reports . A letter written at Clausenburg , Transylvania , in the month of May last , by a member of the Unitarian Consistory in that place , conveys the information , that in Transylvania there are at
present 40 , 000 Unitarians , constituting 120 churches . Unitarianism is one of the four religions , which enjoy equal rights and privileges in that country , the other three being the Roman Catholic , the Calvioistic and the
Lutheran . During the last year , a Unitarian Society has been formed in Calcutta , under the direction of a Baptist Missionary in that place . Hopes are entertained , that much good will result to the cause of Christianity from this Society , and another of the same land at Madras . It is well known that the
natives of that country , among whom are many wise and learned men , have always represented the peculiar doctrines of orthodoxy as an insuperable obstacle to their ever embracing .
Christianity . It is not unreasonable to hope , that when they shall be acquainted with this religion in its native simplicity and punty ; free from the inventions and additions which
how encumber its most popular forms ; they will not be slow to receive its doctrines , become the worshipers of t ) ie true God , and tl * e humble fol-Jowera of hU Son . ' Such are tlie reflections jmd facts which the Managers Have thought pir , op € f , to lay before the Sowtv , as a
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testimony that their own labours are not vain , and as motives to future zeal and perseverance . By order of the Managers . HENRY PAYSON , Prest .
The officers and managers for the ensuing year are the following : " Henry Pays on , President , William G . Appleson , Secretary , Isaac Phillips > Jun ., Treasurer * Willteim C . Shaw , Librarian . Hon . Theodorick Bland , Rev . Jared Sparks , Rev . F . W . P . Greenwood , John Hastings , Win . Pennimen , Dr . E . Perkins , John W . Osgood , and Joseph Parker .
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120 Intelligence . —Proceedings of * Proteetqnf Dissenting Deputies .
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A friend at Liverpool ( who is re 7 quested t 6 accept our thanks ) has sent us a New Yprk newspaper , The National Advocate , of so late adfite as January 28 , containing the following pleasing intelligence , in an extract from a letter , dated at Annapolis , in Maryland :
* ' The Bin to abolish Religious Tests has passed the House of Delegates , 40 to 3 £ . In tlie Senate it will pass also . Maryland has at last redeemed her character . *
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Proceedings of Protestant Dissenting Deputies . Thk first Meeting of the Deputies , elected for this year * was held on the last day of January . This meeting was occupied with discussions no way
iuterestiug to the public , and with the choice of officers and a committee . The names of the officers and of the committee we shall subjoin . The 14 th of February was appointed for a Special Meeting of the Deputation to take into consideration the resolutions we inserted in the Repository for the last month . [ Pp . 58 , 59 . ]
After some observatians , which our limits will not allow us to enter upon , the following resolutions were submitted to the assembly : - General Meeting of Deputies , Feb . 14 , 1823 .
Resolved , That the Deputies of the Protestant Dissenters receive with pleasure the Resolutions which closed the proceedings of their predecessors , and enter upon the t&ak assigned them with
confidence . Thirty years have passed since the Dissenters made a combined appeal to the public and the Legislature fp , r redress of their grievances . Knowledge aud j ^ t view of c *? & gaveruineui
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/56/
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