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tianity . Let us giye practical evidence that it is really so . There are some who think we cannpt do too much against Orthodoxy . He had no sympathy with such a sentiment . He
disliked it . There are many respects in which such opposition would abridge a good influence . He saw _ man _ yi _ thingsJo ^ appr . o . ¥ . eJnJiisJ [) ir-tho ^ dox brethren , and he rejoiced in them . It was his earnest desire that
there should more and more prevail , among Unitarian Christians , a serious and deep sense of the responsibility of our condition , —of the obligations -of personal holiness , as well as of activity , in disseminating Christian truth . He rejoiced in the daily evidence we have of the increasing prevalence and practical operation of these views of duty . Let them prevail . They are the true fruits of the
plain and simple principles of the Gospel which we have embraced ) and cannot fail , in due time , to conquer opposition to our views , and to-compel" assent to them as true .- "Christianity * -
The Rev , Mr . Sullivan , of Keene , after some pertinent introductory remarks , desired to call the attention of the meeting to the condition of those of our brethren at a distance , who , though not near us , are of us , and take a deep interest in our proceedings , and earnestly look to us for
encouragement , and sympathy , Their wants arede . ep . ey . thau . we can know Or feel * They are . - ; m a tjoixditiprx of trial . and temptation . Removed , as many are , from those witfr whom they can , have religious sympathy ,
and surrounded , perhaps , by those who are opposed to Christianity , and to all religion , from having mistaken its true character-by-knowingit only in its corrupt forms , —they have much to struggle with , and are in posing need of pur sympathy , en ^ ourager ment , and support ..
The late religious excitements , said Mr . Sullivan , have beera referred to , and their unhappy tendency lamented , Their undoubted influence had been ,
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. many places ,, to drive off intelligent men from Christianity , Infidelity springs up boldly , and ensnares ^ -and deludes many , who , under ra ^ tional religious instruction , would become ornaments and able defenders
of the Christian faith . These circumstances call loudly for our help , to re-- deenau . th ose ~ wh o _ ar-e ^ thus- ^ tried ^ . an . d _ tempted from their perilous and evil condition . Mr . Sullivan desired to raise his voice and excite a proper sympathy in behalf of such , as well as of those of our distant brethren who are
tried and pained not less by their privation of religious privileges , than by the prevalence of religious indifference , and infidel principles around them . They want an outstretched hand of sym pathy . They Avait for it npw . They walk but weakly and tremblingly . Let us strengthen their tottering steps .
Aid en Bradford , Esq . of New Bedford i followed Mr . Sullivan . Though he had not been hitherto actively engaged in promoting * the interests-of the Unitarian Association , he had
not been indifferent to its objects . He had re ^ d its Annual Reports , and he approve ait ^ measures , and had sympathy with its friends . He was a Unitarian , in the simple and legiti * mate sense of the word . And he felt
that it was an honourable and glorious company of believers with whom he > vas associated . The Apostles of Gfimt were Unitarians ; Jesus Christ hina&elf was a Unitarian . We could show from Ecclesiastical History , that-Unitarianism is an ancient doctrine ; that it is not , as has been said , a modern invention of the young men
of the present clay . He could testify , that when a student at Cambridge , forty-rfive years agov there -was but one person among the officers and theological students who was not a Unitarian ; and among the believers of this doctrine , at that time , he would name , the venerable professor Wigglesworbh . Nor was their faith singular . Many clergymen in various parts of the commonwealth embraced
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FNITARIAN CHROHIOLE . 155
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1832, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1819/page/11/
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