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to the Bight Hon . Baronet ' s second proposition , for the insertion of a future clause into leases , to . save the Roman Catholic tenant , and throw the weight upon his landlord , he was rather favourable to such a regulation . He did feel for the poor tenant who had taken his lease without any expectation that a
church would he built near his land , and who had afterwards to meet the expense of such a buildiug . With the utmost desire to go hand in hand with the Hon . Baronet , in givitig a full consideration to parts of his plan , if brought forward in a specific bill , he hoped he would withdraw his resolution .
Sir J . Newport said , he should withdraw the resolution , and move for leave to bring in a hill for amending the laws relative to the rebuilding and repairing of churches in Ireland , and for relieving occupying tenants from church rates on certain occasions . —Leave was giveu .
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MADRAS . Unitarian Association . The Foreign Committee have received a letter from William Roberts , dated Sept . 22 , 1826 , from which are taken the following very interesting extracts . This excellent man was then recovering from a severe attack of asthma followed by the measles .
" In hopes of our friends increasing their remittances , I , with greatest economy possible , endeavoured to keep up both my schools and the catechist , but I am now not able to pay them any longer , without much inconvenience and injury to myself and family . * * * Several of my brethren are very willing to do every thing to serve and promote the truth they have embraced , but the increase of their families and their poverty are great impediments .
* ' When a man becomes a Christian in India , he is entirely alienated from his caste and from all his other friends , and forfeits their favour for ever ; but he has the consolation , favour and support of his European teachers , and the friendship of the party he joins . As to a
Unitarian , it is extremely hard : he is not onty forsaken by all his former friends and well-wishers , but he is defamed and looked upon almost by all other denominations of Christians , and their learned teachers , as a monster and enemy of their right faith . His own brethren being too few to afford him
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much help , he is almost single in all his turns and against all his opponents . These discouraging inconveniences deter many from professing Unitarianism openly . Many seem to think that to become a Unitarian is not only consenting to
bear all the reproaches of their former friends and bitter ill-will of those good , though mistaken , Christians , from whom better things might have been expected ,, but it is also voluntarily purchasing poverty . I want ability in English to describe all the inconveniences we labour
under . " But myself in particular , though I am unworthy , yet my heavenly Father has one after another granted many of my earnest requests . One particular petition remains ; that is a Unitarian teacher , to keep up our present light burning , and inspire ray brethren and others about us with fresh courage . I
have already , considering my weak and sickly constitution , beyond all reasonable expectation , been blessed with a long life , and had time and means to inquire , read , examine , think , and separate the wheat from the chaff , and hold up to the view of others the pure truths of the gospel , against all discouragement for thirty years ; and also lately , by the
kindness of my English Unitarian friends , I have been enabled to print and circulate some of my writings . Though my labour has not been crowned by many conversions , yet when I reflect on my own insufficiency and humble circumstances of life , I am astonished how the Lord has so kindly , so wonderfully conducted me step by step , without
suffering any worldly consideration or difficulty ever to draw me away from my duty . All these his goodness I am afraid will eclipse , if I should die without a second person to take up my place 5 it being a common interrogation , Who will carry on the Unitarian cause when William Roberts dies ? May God ' s Supreme will be done !
" Present month will complete the 58 th year of my age . Bodily weakness now creeps on fast . Whatever difficulties may yet lay before me , the same good Being , who has conducted me hitherto , will , I trust , guide me safely through it . • ? I beg through this , to present my heartfelt thanks to the friends and supporters of the Unitarian cause at Pursewankum . May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ bless them richly for all their good endeavours and continued kindness !"
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/75/
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