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alluding is , that the present state of things with respect to Unitarianisrn in Paris , was one of the most serious objects of Dr . Priestley ' s anxiety , while he was in retirement in Northumberland ( u . s . ) : for many months it was the subject of his correspondence , and he frequently expressed - hiinself-prepared ~ to-pass-into-E
uropeyin the event of its appearing at all likely that , by so doing , he could forward his Paris design . Dr . Priestley was assisted in forming his opinion on this subject by his zealous and enlightened friend , Mr . Russell of Birmingham . When Mr . Russell left America for France , one of the first objects of his anxiety was to try if he could not establish a Unitarian
congregation at Paris : it was with this intention that he exerted himself , during the short interval that occurred after the peace of Amiens ; and it is only a few days ago that I was
examining the correspondence of Mr . Russell with Dr . Priestley , by which I find that this was their great object . I thought that it must be agreeable to this Society "to know that such were Dr . Priestley ' s feelings , and that such was the zeal with which Mr . Russell
entered into the subject . That which we have heard this evening , is a realization of Dr . Priestley ' s expectations : more than thirty years ago he expressed a desire to labour in this service , and at the same time conveyed an intimation that that service would one day be accomplished ; That
period has now arrived ; we have prosecuted that labour , at which Dr . Priestley aimed , under more favourable circumstances ; and have illustrated the accuracy of the doctrine ,- — that the promotion of the truth of God is the best means of forwarding the happiness of man . '
Mr , Richard Taylor . — * I ought not to have omitted to mention , that those clergymen of Geneva who have visited this country , never cease in their letters to express the great interest they take in this Association , and the pleasure with which they
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recur to the mariner in which they were received by our Unitarian ministers in London , and other friends connected with us . '
Resolution carried unanimously . The Rev . Mr . Tagart— ' It now devolves upon me to present to the Meeting a motion , towards which I think ~ -the-warmest ~ sympathy ^ will ~~ b v entertained . It relates to the Domestic Mission which we have
established in this metropolis ; but before I proceed to the immediate subject of the Resolution , I will venture to make , as Foreign Secretary to the Association , a few remarks on those topics , of which we have already heard so much . I wish aorain to call the
attention of the Meeting to the great extent and usefulness of the Foreign Department of this Society . When we consider that this Association one day holds correspondence with our friends at Montreal , and the next with a person previously unknown to us in Hobart Town , must we not feel that
the arms of the Society are so extended that they can , as it were , embrace the whole civilised globe : and when we consider the various places where the Unitarian light has broken forth , the prospect of the world may be compared to that which we behold from an eminence , when , after a dark
and gloomy morning , the sun bursts through the clouds and sheds on many spots his beams , at once gladdening to the eye and cheering to the heart . We have correspondents in various parts of Germany , in Gibraltar , in Geneva , and in Cape Town . In Madras , too , it appears from the letters of William Roberts that our
cause prospers ; and I must say that I perused with peculiar delight that portion of his letter where he mentions that the Hindoos , though worshipping many gods themselves ,
cannot tolerate the same multiplicity of deities on the part of those who profess the religion of Christ . Having mentioned the subject of India , I cannot do other than pause for the purpose of congratulating my friends ;
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 107
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1815/page/11/
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