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of inquiry will bring many converts to truth , to Christ , and to Unitarian Christianity . My friend has referred to the state of things at Nismes : this day month I was in company with those two gentlemen to whom he has alluded . They have for manv years
been fighting most courageously and mijstsurcessfuliythe-battles-of' -tnith and of liberty . The situation of the Protestants there is one which subjects them to much rancour and obloquy . They constitute only one-third of the population , and they have had to resist the fanaticism of a frantic and
ignorant party . Tiiey have , however , been able to maintain their ground , and they now hold the highest place in the affections of their intelligent fellow-citizens . I can scarcely communicate the delight with which they heard from me that we were looking with interest at the struggle in which
they were engaged , and that this Society was always eager in the cause of religious improvement and religious reform . In Lyons also * 'I ibund the spirit of religious inquiry so much awakened , that I was the bearer of a letter from the Consistory of Lyons to this Association , intreatingus to communicate to them some account of our
opinions , together with copies of the treatises of our best writers , the Consistory engaging to submit them to the fullest investigation . I know the excellence of the men who have thus written , and I know that men more devoted to truth and philanthropy do not exist . Farther south , at Marseilles , I met with many who are in correspondence with this Society . On two or three occasions , reference
has been made to a Spanish deputy belonging to the grandees of his country- —grandees who used to tlunk that their blood was more clear than common blood : I found that man , who has been cruelly driven from the British possessions , exerting himself at Marseilles—taking every opportunity to circulate our tractsgiving evidence of his zeal and enthusiasm in our cause ^ -HcUscussing
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religious topics With Catholics , St . Simonians , and indeed with all who were willing to discuss—and proving himself in every respect worthy to be our missionary , as you well know he
has been—heartily and gratuitously . I found that whenever he could procure an opportunity of sending packets-of ^ tracts ^ byUhe ^ capt . ainsj 3 fjLe . as _ els he did so , always taking care to consign them to persons in whom he could confide . What I have thus
related to you with respect to France , is but a sample of the rest of the world ; and you who have been so long engaged in scattering the good seed , may now behold it ripening , and giving token of a goodly harvest . For myself , I feel bound to
apologise for my present position , because I seem to myself to be an unworthy trustee of the honours of the Society : having been a member of the Committee for years , I shall feel great sorrow in having to withdraw from that office , if it was from any other cause than that of unavoidable
absence . My connexion with the Association , has always been interesting to me in the highest degree in many parts of the world , it has been my introduction to the good and the virtuous : and in others it has
associated my name with that movement which is constantly tending forward to human improvement and happiness : and now that accidental circumstances and absence from England have alienated my name from .
the Committee , I may with the less invidiousness bear testimony to the extent of your endeavours , and bid you live with the assurance that your exertions , so far from being in vain , have been most successful . '
JVIr . Rutt . — Before that question is put to the Meeting , I hope I may Be allowed to occupy a few minutes of its time ; for I should not do justice to my own feelings , Sir , if I did not state- to you and the company what I hope will in no long time be known to the public , through the medium of the press , The fact to which I- am /
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106 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1815/page/10/
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