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thus strangely misrepresented ; he pro * cgeds to exhibit to his readers in an extract of three jjgggs ^ froin Rammohuxi Boy's " Secomf Appeal / ' designed "to prove tKe natural inferiority of the Son to the Father . " To save Iris . consistency ; he premises tliat his object in selecting the passage is
* merely to exemplify the manner in which the learned Bengalee handles his subject ; " and to re-assure $ ny Scotsmen who may be afflicted with doubts in consequence of reading Rammohtin Roy ' s ? argpiment , he says vyith marvellous simplicity , * with regard to the doctrine it proposes to establish , Bishop Horsley , and ,
subsequently , Professor Porson , " ( yes , reader , Professor Porson !> " have already taken from under it every prop by which it was , or can be upholden . " Is it possible that " Orthodoxy" in Scotland can depend upon such learning * and such logic for its preservation 2 Ejd . T
** Mr . Editor , ** t H * HE attention of theologians , JL and literary men , having lately been called to this extraordinary and enlightened Bengalee , in coftsequence
of * the extensive reading , intelligence , and zeal he has displayed in combatting the attacks made by the Serampore Missionaries upon his religious writings in favour of Christian Unitarianism , the doctrine which he has
himself adopted , it may very probably prove acceptable to your readers , to receive some authentic particulars of tjiis singular character , with a list of his writings . " Rammohun Roy was by birth a Brahmun , the highest dignity in Indian society ; butbejng , from an early age , accustomed to be near
Europeans , he saw the advantage , and availed himself of the opportunity , of becoming master of the English language * to which he afterwards added Latin and Hebrew . With the Arabic , Persic and Sungscrit tongues , together with the several vernacular diais
lects of Hindoo 3 tan , l ^ e perfectly familiar . "Hi& proficiency in English is , best shewn by the styJe . of bis , comp ^ f ^ pn , as the powers of h \ & mind are t tybJtjie force of M& re asonings , which ! have \> e ^ n clecla ^ r ^ > y 6 i | e of 0 e ablest
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judges li ^ g , W be atnwg 0 r , 7 md clearer than any thing yeli pr&dkced on the aide of the question which he has espoused . \ " From what period we are to date bris renunciation of the Brahm unicai Holy Mysteries , or Sefeular Privileges and Honours , is not ascertained : but
he has for many years been observed to take an active solicitude in spreading through small tracts in the native languages , portions of the Vedas and Shastrus , which oppose Idolatry , and the cruel and unauthorised devotion of widows to death on the funeral
piles of their husbands . The Bible , however , has been his favourite study ; and there are few , perhaps , who retain more accurately , or comprehend more clearly , its important contents . He is conversant , too , with the works of most of our celebrated divines :
and , by his Lordship ' s own invitation , had some particular conferences with the late learned Bishop of Calcutta , on the subject of the Christian religion ; and though he was not convinced by the Bishop ' s opinions and persuasions , he was wont to speak of the Right Reverend Prelate ' s
erudition , piety and urbanity , in terms of . respect and admiration . It is a well known fact , that the Rev , Mr , Adams , \^ Ad ( jtm ^\ sent put by the London * Baptist Missionary Society to Calcutta , for the express purpose of converting * Raimnohun Roy to the tenets of his
sect , wa 3 himself converted , and still continues a cUsciple' of Christian Unit&rianism , through the arguments em * p joyed , and the perusal of the authors recommended by the redoubted Ex-Brancaun ; being at preseqt the officiating minister in a Unitarian chapel
in Calcutta , built by a subscription raised by Rammohun Roy and his friends . Yet such is the humility an *! generosity of Rammohun Roy ' s sentiments , that he never makes ' mention , much less a boast of this triumpli ,
ardently supplicating * God to render religion de&tructixe of differences and dislike l > etwe&& mw % and , « aan , and conducive to thevfMieev and union of nmuUmd ^ ( fridtf appeal to the Ch ristian Pufiiich ty < & % y To the diffusion 1 ' ¦ * : " >"")* — i ' Vni i ^ " vt > r * t v — ¦— - ~~ * The epithet . ^ 0 >^^ , is : not used by thb ^ t ^^^^ Hf ? tt ^^ rf ^ J | f | | |^ denomuia ^ tiou . Ep . M . R . - r ;•/ ;' ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '
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li ? 6 RdmmoMn May and Edinburgh \ Magm&iu 2 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1823, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1789/page/16/
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