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These are perhaps the most full and able among the numerous pamphlets to which the present division in the Bible Society has given rise . On many points , they are both highly satisfactory . Mr , Gurney s , though much shorter than that of the understood editor of * The Christian Observer , makes up what it wants in length by a very beautiful and lucid manner of putting the argument . On one point , in particular , untouched by Mr . Wilks , that of the recent dishonest evasion of the long-understood partnership between the various Christian sects in the matter of the Bible
Society , he is forcible , clear , and candid in his statements . He gives us no hope , indeed , that he can ever regard the Unitarian as a Christian , in the best sense of the word , but he deals not in insinuation , —he meditates no evasion . We would venture to say we shall never find him among those who would invite our pecuniary co-operation , while they insult us by suspicions and
provisions . We wish we could say as much for Mr . Wilks , and for most of the writers who have followed on the same side . But in truth when , we go over the pamphlets of the opposing parties , we find it a matter of difficulty to say which we like the least , our open
enemies , or those who are making this one reservation in our favour . We rise from the perusal with mingled sorrow and shame , armed , however , we hope , with new resolution to do our duty in our own way , allowing the dust which these bustling worthies have kicked up to settle quietly down .
The line of conduct which Unitarians will pursue on this occasion , has been a matter of interesting speculation to ourselves ; and , without presuming to dictate to others , we may perhaps be permitted to throw in a few considerations which have occurred to us , and which , before they are put into act , it may be as well that the different movers in this field should turn over in their
minds . And , first , let it be remembered , that we are not now speaking as sectarians : all who doubt whether the doctrine of the Trinity be a Scriptural doctrine , are interested in this question . It has nothing to do with our churches , our funds , our publications . It is simply whether anti-Trinitarians are to be excluded
from distributing the Scriptures . It is true ., indeed , that Unitarians have reason to feel themselves particularly aggrieved by the manner in which they have been spoken of as a body ; but it becomes all , whether united with them in church fellowship or not , to consider what is the most Christian course of conduct to be pursued with regard to the Bible Society , * The Bible Society Question in its Principle and its Details considered ; in a Series of Letters . By W . S . C . Wilks , M . A . Terms of Union . Remarks addressed to the Members of the British and Foreign Bible Society . By Joseph John Gurney *
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THE BIBLE SOCIETY QUESTION * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/46/
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