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we can judge , the spirit of reformation was widely extended , and among men of the first rauk in the army , whose members had had the opportunity of imbibing new opinions abroad . If thfcse opinions had spread elsewhere , the fact is carefully concealed . Either the
concurrence of so many men of station in society argues more converts and wider extension than are admitted , or these poor men have miserably mistaken the capacity and political situation of their country iu thinking it adapted to such changes as the liberals of other parts have been seeking to promote under more favourable circumstances .
If the over zealous friends of free institutions in other countries have , either without sufficient knowledge or consideration of the prospects of success , or of the hazard of the experiment , encouraged these enthusiasts in schemes wholly visionary and impotent in such a country as Russia , we can only say we lament their fate , aad that the event strengthens
the doubt we have always entertained as to the propriety of intermeddling , even with the best motives , in the politics of foreign countries , respecting which a stranger ' s capacity of judgment must be very limited . Such interference furnishes the best justification we have ever heard of for courts making common cause against the subjects of neighbouring states . When the citizens of one power
busy themselves in the intestine disputes of another , it cannot be supposed that governments will not retaliate by seeking a community of resistance . Cosmopolitanism is at best a cheap virtue , for it is very easy to embroil eaKer spirits at a distance in enterprises in which the instigator will bear no burden , and from the danger and disgrace of which he is safe and at his ease .
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The Jews . —A society of Jews has been organized at Charleston , South Carolina , with the professed intention of bringing back their religion to the standard of Moses and the Pentateuch . The society was instituted in January , 1825 , after a fruitless remonstrance addressed to the
Rulers of their body . The objects of this remonstrance were , to reform the service of the Synagogue , to cut down its repetitions , to shorten its length , to enforce better order during the performance , and to introduce the language of the country for the Hebrew , which few of them understand . —Christian Observer .
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[ The following communication is the first of a series , of letters , in which the writer proposes to give a detailed account of the progress of Unitarianism in India , and of the labours of the Calcutta Unitariau Committee , for the information of the British and American public ]
To the Rev . W , J . Fox , Foreign Secretary to the British and Foreign Uuitasian Association ; and the Rev . J . Tuckerman , D . D ., Secretary to the Boston India Association . Dear Sirs , My former letters will have put you in possession of the principal facts and circumstances connected with the
present state and prospects of Unitarian Christianity in British India . In this , and in some subsequent communications , it is my inteution to collect those scattered uotices , and to add whatever details may be wanting , in order to furnish you with a full and connected view of the proceedings and plans of the Calcutta Unitarians . Such a view , while it will necessarily include a reply to most of your receut inquiries , is also needed ,
in the opinion of our Committee , for the further information of the Christian public in this country , and this series of my letters will therefore probably be published here at their expense , as soon as it is completed . The necessity I am under for the present of employing the chief part of my time in very different and less congenial pursuits , will account for the delay which , I fear , will occur between the successive communications
which I shall address to you on this subject . Being honest in the belief of those statements and opinions which I shall advance , it is of course my wish that they should be believed by others ; but £ unfortunately find , by past experience , that I have to contend against strong ,
and , in some respects , peculiar prejudices . The missionaries of the present day have indulged in exaggerated representations of the importance and success of their labours , and the just and natural consequence of this has been , to produce a general feeling of distrust and
suspicion against whatever they may publish respecting themselves , and depending only upon their own authority . This prejudice operates against me as well as against every other missionary . But it happens that the accounts contained in my Correspondence with Professor Ware respecting the state of the Protestant
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/69/
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