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148 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION . Thr Seventh . Anniversary of this Association took place at Boston on the evening of Tuesday , the 29 th of May . The meeting for business was held in Bury Street Vestry , at 6 o'clock . After the acceptance of the _^ F eas « -Fe-FV ^ R&p 0 ^ i ? tr —th-e- —foM 0-w . i » gf gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year : —
Rev . Dr . Bancroft , President . Vice-Presidents , Hon . Joseph Story , Massachusetts . ,, Joseph Lymajn , do . „ Charles H . Atherton , New Hampshire . „ Stephen Longfellow , Maine . „ William Cranch , District of Columbia . „ Sam . & . Wilde , Massachusetts . ,, Samuel Hoar , do . „ William Sullivan , do . Henry Wheaton , Esq ., New York . James Taylor , Esq ., Pennsylvania . Martin L . Hurlbut , Esq ., do . Henry PaVson , Esq ., Maryland . -
Rev . Timothy Flint , Ohio . Rev . James Walker , J ,, Samuel Barrett , > Directors . „ Ezra S . Gannett , J „ Henry Ware , Jun ., Foreign Secretary . ,, Alexander Young , Domestic Secretary . Henry Rice , Esq ., Treasurer . The Association adjourned at 7 o ' clock to the Federal Street Church , which was well filled" at an early hour .
After prayers offered by Rev . Dr , Harris of Dorchester , the Executive Committee ' s Annual Reports were read by Rev . Mr . Young ,, the Domestic Secretary , and by Rev . Mr . Barrett , for Rev . Professor Ware , Jr ., the Foreign Secretary , The Reports , which were both of them able and highly interesting papers , communicated much valuable and encouraging information in regard to the spread of Unitarian Christianity during the past year , and its prospects
for the future , both in this country and abroad . As it is expected they will soon be published , we shall defer at present a reference to their details .
- After the reading of the Reports , Rev . Dr . Bancroft , the President , briefly addressed the meeting . He —expressed-the-regret-he-fel-t-that-thecircumstances in which Unitarians had involuntarily been placed , laid them under a necessity of meeting and acting separately from other Christians . But thus it was . And in the course they had adopted , they
have every encouragement to persevere , and to expect a favourable result as to the influence of their measures on the happiness and improvement of the religious community . He invited the remarks of any gentleman present who felt an interest in the operations and success of the Association .
Judge Rogers , of Boston , then addressed the meeting . He said that he perceived , from the encouraging statements in the Reports , that Unitarian Cffristianity was not deficient in interest with the community . The state of mind and feeling on hearing the Reports was an evidence of the fact .
The situation in which Unitarians had been placed was trying and peculiar . They had been denied the name of Christians . It was hoped they had borne the charge with meekness . They had declared that they desired not controversy , and it was true that they did not . Yet there were occasions when duty required them not to shrink from it . Controversy is indeed sometimes
new cessary , and it has its uses . It has been charged on-Unitarians that theirs is a negative religion ; that at best it has no vitality ; that it is cold and dead . But , admitting that we have not all the ardour of some sects , it does not necessarily follow that ours is a bad cause . At least , great heat is wot certain evi-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1832, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1819/page/4/
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