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the north of Ireland . But no sooner was it brought out , voluntarily or involuntarily , than the proof was manifest that a good leader in a good cause will not fail of finding followers ; and now , with boldness may we say , that nothing is wanting to give to Unitarian Christianity a splendid and an extensive spread in
France , but the formation in its capital of an association similar to those of America and of England . Its station will be of course at Paris , where it will find firm supporters . The objects immediately in view are these—to print in the French language and circulate small tracts , translated from the English and American publications—to obtain a French preacher , in order to open a
French church in Paris in connexion with the English church —to find , or to assist in the education of , a proper person who shall act , under the direction of the committee , as a missionary i—and to form a correspondence with those parts of France , in which are persons , who have a regard for the truth as we believe it to be in Jesus , and are willing to put their hand to the plough , and labour in this rich and promising soil .
It is thought that we may begin with the greater prospect of success , because an English Unitarian church is already formed in Paris , and in a condition which fully answers the expectation of the persons with whom it originated . In the same room the French society may hold their first meetings . A gentleman , highly respectable and well educated , has proposed to take the pastoral care * But the same facilities are not offered for this
object as presented themselves accidentally for the opening of the English church ; nor is it seen to be prudent in the persons who now assemble there , to undertake the accomplishment of this very desirable work . It is hoped that , by the formation of a French , in connexion with an English social worship , they will be of a mutual benefit : the one will make the other better
known ; and that united , with the aid of the fund , they will cause to flow out streams of light and knowledge- *—at present much desired and greatly needed by this interesting people—who , like the heathen inhabitants of ancient Athens , are now busied in inquiring after some new thing . This is certainly true in what relates to religion . We shall not , therefore , be blamed for asking pecuniary assistance from our friends in England and America , in order to set on foot , and to carry on , a work which , we are assured , will interest their feelings and be approved by their judgment . I . W .
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On the State of Religion in France . 129
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/57/
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