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The Rise and Establishment , in Jive and twenty years , in the United Stated of America , of one thousand Unitarian Congregations under the designation of Christians , together with a Detailed Statement and Defence of their Opinions . By Simon dough . Hunter , London ; Forrest * Manchester . This interesting tract consists of & republication of two pieces by a
minister deservedly eminent and esteemed in the Christian denomination . From circumstances explained in the preface , we learn that the statements of numbers and opinions are authoritative , and truly surprising is the fact which they set forth of the formation , within twentynve years , of above one thousand Unitarian congregations . The date of this document is 1827 , and we doubt not that during the last five years a corresponding progress has been made . Nor when We Consider the liberal basis on which the Christian church is constructed , do we fear that the
rapidity of their increase will be retarded , as a similarly rapid spread has been in the Wesleyan Methodist connexion . What would be the joy of liindsey , who went forth from his home and his vineyard into a strange and to him barren land , could he witness the mighty growth of Unitarian Christianity in the United States , as learnt by the numbers of the Christians and other details afforded by the Editor ! What prophets , if not kings , waited for , our eyes behold , and yet this harvest , our hearts and Our minds tell us , is but as the first sheaf offered to the Lord .
We have long wished that to the publication of productions , by the ( so called ) Unitarians of the United States , by which our body and others in this kingdom have been edified and delighted , some one would add Select pieces from the pen of the Christians , the Universaliats , and the liberal Quakers . We take the present tract as a pledge as well as a boon . We thank the editor for this , and we ask him for
more . There is we know considerable pecuniary risk . But cannot this be rendered inconsiderable to individuals by being divided ? and might not the slow returns of the book trade be better endured by a union of several persons than by one ? Union is strength ;—the apophthegm is true as trite . Therefore , we wish to see the productions of Transatlantic Antitrinitarians republished in this country to as great an extent as possible ; and , therefore , we wish most heartily that all Transatlantic Antitrinitarians were banded together in brotherly love
and harmonious action . What power would be wielded for good , were the two thousand ( and more ) Antitrinitarian societies of the United States associated for the promotion of common purposes ! It is not so . How lottg ? Grant that there are differences ; they are on minor points . Do not all recognise the two fundamental truths of Christianity—the proper unity and essential goodness of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ? Suppose the Universalists are not so well educated as the Unitarians * That id their misfortune not
their fault , and if & disqualification for one sphere of usefulness , for that very reason it may be qualification for another . Suppose they have trenched on parochial boundaries and established order , —they have good examples , if we remember right , in Jesus Christ and Martin Luther , and have done no more than the Unitarians of this kingdom have done , and what they were called on to do , by the belief that error prevailed and that they had truth to impart . Suppose that some of them hold that the punishment of the wicked terminates
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/66/
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