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they weFe seized add sold to the Haulers to slave in the sugar-isiaiMte ; would . it be a crime in me , as a Chris- * tiari , to attempt to effeet , without money , their deliverance ? Or , in them , to run away the moment the eye of their tyrant was off them ? Here I
could enlarge , but , Mr . Editor , I am fearful of being thought prolix . In a word , therefore , I will be bold to assert , that while Christianity contemplates mankind in the light of rational beings , Slavery regards them simply in that of mere animals * .
I should feel & pleasure in Completing my series of papers in compliance with the friendly request of your cor- > respondent Euelpis > were Inot pledged to lay before the public a more detailed account of my late mission 'to
Jamaica , in a pamphlet devoted to the purpose , than has yet appeared . This feeing the case , I conclude that no one will wish me to occupy any more of your pages with communications on the subject in hand . THOMAS COOPER .
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£ 54 Appeal in behalf oftfte Ckri&tiM Tract Sovftttf
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Appeal in behalf of the Christian Tract Society ., f JPBE . merits of the Christian Tract JL Society are so well known , and so universally acknowledged among Unitarian Dissenters , that it - might
have been hoped nothing more would have been necessary to stimulate us to a cheerful , active and zealous support of an institution , fraught with
sueh incalculable benefit to society , and more particularly to the young and the poor . Whoever has attentively witnessed tlie effects of their publications on these descriptions of persons ,
must have observed tfeat they arfc ^ caleulated to convey religious knowledge in the most easy , interesting tod € &-paging form ; and to produce tfeHgiotts impression , and excite to religions practice , by the most powerful of all persuasives , the influence of attractive
and interesting examples . The narrative and dialogue form in which inost of these publications are written , it is . well known , are by far * he most effectual methods of conveying instruction to y&v&g and uncultivated minds ; aij * the eagerness with wfiich these tracts are sought after , and read by thousands of persons , who , if they
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had not these , would Sfcstfia&yfend any thing , o * nothmg -. tifit $ & vilest trash , is a striking proof of ^ ritiHty of the institution . : To those efth ^ poor , ttftrb ate prevented by illness or lameness ? frboi following their usual occupations , and who are able to read with tolerable
correctness , these tracts are aaa . mvahiable treasure . Few indeed , deplorably few , are the resources which persons m this situation generally possess . Their minds uncultivated ; their knowledge scanty , vrtth- sfc ^ reely any means either of amusement or improvement ; and scarcely any society tvhich can render them- any ^ consolation ; their
days arid Bights drag heavily on , and tfiey ^ have noth ing to dof but to count &nd * wish aw&y the tfecRous hours . We fhink , ' and jiistly think it to be our duty , in all such cases , to render some comfort a ^ d assistance to < he afflicted
body ; why not then equally to the distressed and vacant mind ? A few shillings expended in the purchase of these tracts , to be either given or lent © n such occasions , would relieve and cheer many a dreary hour of wretch * ednestf , by furnishing the mind with
agreeable and profitable employment . And the pious , rational and consoling views of the Deity , and of his dealings with his creatures , which are uniformly inculcated in these publications , and the fine spirit of habitual devotion
whteh pervades and runs throtigh the whole of them , can scarcely fail of making many valuable impressions , as well as of ihapwrtiag the purest and the most durable consolation to the
wounded and afflicted sjfririt . Equally beneficial a * g these pujblieatfofta to apprentices an $ servants in the varies departments -of lift . It is a meMnchely f&ct , that the employers of tlieac persons seldom pay much atteritfon id < the mantier In wbicli they
flpend their small portion af leisure time : and , consequently , it laitoo oftea spent , not only Without impfeireinent , but in a way to unfit them fbrbceem * kig useful and virtuous metodbsrs of society in- the present Jife , and tb < Ks-2 uali ( y them for the happiness of a lttuiB ^ tafce . But if some Khid and
jndicioua Christian fHefcd , Who has the real tvelfiir ^ of the rising 1 generation at lieart v would take the trouble tfr farniBh theto ^ with a fen * f these
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/42/
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