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£ 2 Q UNITARIAN CHKONICI ^ E ^
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means . But go with your preachers and your tracts into every city and parish in the land , proclaiming peace unto it * Wherever you are received kindly and affectionately , abide . Where you are not so received , go your way , silently praying that they ^ maf ^ duly ^ im ^ tox e-and ^ yuieJSyji rMi }} . of the privileges which they already
enjoy . In the call that comes to us from every part of our country , from many parts of Europe , and India , for instruction in liberal Christianity , we hear a repetition of the declaration of the Saviour- — « The harvest is truly great , but the labourers are few . ' May labourers in abundance
be found for the harvest , and may all those who have little or much of the / Tgood things of this world to spare , cast it into the treasury of the Lord ; to be applied to the promotion and diffusion of that knowledge which purifies , elevates , and fits men for the enjoyment of heaven .
MR . SALTONSTALl / s REMARKS . Hon . Mr . Saltonstail , of Salem , re- ^ marked , that he had been requested to present to the consideration of the meeting a resolution expressing the interest we should feel in the successful diffusion of Unitarian sentiments in this community . ' But previously to offering it , he could not forbear expressing the unfeigned satisfaction he felt in- witnessing- this
large assembly ; come together with one accord , without previous concertj and now deliberating on the su ' c ~ cessful progress of Unitarianism , in this our ancient and well beloved county of Essex . Such meetings were well . He had often thought it would be well to have them . He had often thought it a great defect ,
that public meetings on the subject were not more frequent . By thus associating we receive a new impulse ¦—we feel encouraged to action ; we interchange opinions , and urge each other on in doing good . Who ever attended one of the Annual Meetings
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of the General Association in Boston , without feeling an ^ increased con fidence in the cause ; without being aroused to action ; without feeling himself benefited thereby ? And why may not a portion of the same spirit be infused into the community , by occasional meetings like the
present , in each and every district of the Commonwealth ? There is , said he , a great body of Unitarians in this county . There are more or less in every town in the county . In Salem , in this place , and in several adjoining towns , they constitute the maiority of the male
population . In the north part of the county also there are Unitarians ; and many highly respectable . They are beginning to feel it to be their duty to avow themselves such ; they are taking courage to declare their opinions . It is right that they do this . Perhaps , I should say , it were wrong in them so long to have omitted to - do -it * Ad vert-for - a - moment . Sir . to the histerv of the
county , some forty or fifty years since . Who then were its religious teachers ? Were they not liberal Christians ? There was Tucker at Newbury , Webster at Haverhill , and Balch at Bradford , and many others ; - —who then taught in sub * stance , if not in name , the same doctrines now held by Unitarians . At that time there was but one exclusive
society on the Merrimack . But how is the scene now changed ? Who now are the leaders on the Merrimack , and other towns adjacent ? Even there we are not left without hope . Already are there indications of brighter times . In Ipswich , the venerable J ^^ lp ^ jo ^ cgux ^^ a ^ e ^ has been lately formed a society with highly encouraging , prospects . In
Haverhill and m Amesbury , are societies . well established : and in Nevvburyport , the strong hold of Orthodoxy , is a most flourishing and efficient society of Unitarians . Let people but feelthe importance of the cause ; let them but feel the obli-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1832, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1823/page/12/
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