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expresses his , wish -for an assistant , and his conviction , from the effects produced , that this ministry will become a permanent institution . It appears that New York ( the Unitarians , there we presume ) was about to follow the example of Boston .
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. posed to assume any authority over the opinions of his people , but , on the contraryj has been most anxious that they should think for themselves .
In entreating" your acceptance of the accompanying tribute of sincere regard , we rejoice at the opportunity - —t-hus ^ a ^ rded—of ^ ex-pressing-our-sen----timents . gVou have now entered . on the discharge of other pastoral duties . —That these may be a source of happiness to yourself , and advantageous to your people , is our earnest hope ; and we entreat you to be assured that your character , public and private , has deeply interested numbers in your welfare , and that you leave behind you many warm friends .
Joseph Hone , Jno . Class On , R . M . Fjsile , Jan . R . Hutton , Wm . Drennan . Dublin , July 14 th , 1832 . [ 77 signatures followed . ] ' ' ANSWER . " * - ' " ¦ . . Dear and generous Friends , — -The munificent expression of regard which you have conveyed to me in the name of many from whom I have grieved to dissever myself , has
touched and humbled , while it has encouraged me . It has touched me by adding an overpowering claim on a gratitude already due , and already felt , towards those among whom the first years of my . active life have been happily passed . It has humbled me Byreminding me how much more I should have done to merit an approbation so generously disproportionate to the value of my ministry and character . And it has encouraged me by assuring me that acts of simple duty are never without their sympathyj-a ? id that these are times in which , to the
earnest lover of truth and righteousness , faith in man is a feeling scarcelyless appropriate than trust in God . The principle involved in the act which led to my resignation , I am content to leave to the decision of that enlightened public opinion which M
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Correspondence between the Members of the Eustace-Street Congregation , Dublin ^ and their late Minister } the Rev . James Martineaii * . Rev . and dear Sir ,- ^ It being the wish of some of your friends here ( whose names are annexed ) to give some expression to the sense which they entertain of your talents , zeal , and private worth , we are deputed to convey to you the assurance of
their sincere regard * It is apparent that a difference of opinion exists upon the circumstances which led to your resignation . We shall therefore confine ourselves to # subject with respect to which there h fiodif ^ sity bT optimum Som e of your friends think with you that the royal bounty acts as" an impediment
to true religion ; whilst others conscientiously consider it an indispensable support . But we all cordially unite in unfeigned respect for the , lofty integrity manifested by its rejection . Here , as in every other part of your life and conversation , while among us , we recognize an honest man ; and , differing as we do about , other matter " we all kriow how to appreciate this * noblest work
' of God / Nor can we , keeping * in view the right of private judgment on all points , refrain from expressing our high admiration , of the ministry of one who so fully and fearlessly declared what in his conscience he believed to be the whole counsel of God , and who has never been
dis-* For the reasons which led to their aeparation , see Mr , Martineau ' s admirable letter on the receipt of the Parliamentary Grant by the Presbyterian ministers of Ireland , inserted in the Monthly depository for JDecember last ,
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE / l 6 l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1832, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1819/page/17/
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