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SiiYENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF : :gi?S: ' B ' • ' a^J pIKan V unJz&riah A§SOCjUmON ON DOMESTIC
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UNITA&IAN C #£ QNICLE » % 5 l
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ages , but fronv hiify who is tl ? e true light , lightening every rnan tlrnt cometh into the vmid . Our creed we take from the Saviour himself , who teaches us to believe in one only living God , arid in Jesus Christ whom he hath sent . Oq the Scriptures alone we hope to build our . faith and
praeticeT ^ nd ^ in ^ st ^ exercise that reaspn which God has not given in vain . E [ e compared the spiri , t ) of ancient Judaism , binding men with heavy burdens , to the spirit which , manifesting itself a century since , drove the Antrim Presbytery , and to jhe spirit which lately appearing hi the Synod of Ulster , drove also the Remonstrants
to throw off human shackles , and assert that liberty wherewith Christ had made them ^ e& . ^ hem ^ xm ^ ciples ha < i be ^ n advocated by his father , for fiftyrfoyr years the happy minister of this congrfigation , and by his brother-, for twenty-four years , UM ^ £ LH ?? : 9 ? S JB ? E ^ r 5 r * i ? $ w . * . " gregation * had unanin ^ ousiy joined th e Remonstfan ts .- —True , since his = death , the adversary had , like a serpent , insinuated himself among jbliem .
But , though some had been weak enough to be led captive , those remained , who were , the trie 4 ^ nd steady servants of Q . o , c } a $ L the respected friends of man . U , e reqognise ^ around hjm thp . se wbpni he had earjl y Jsnown and hi ghl y e $ te $ W&i $% QW $ F ? * iff ? the active member ^ of itHe con ^^ inherited from tjjpir fathers % zealous love for t ]? . e Jtruth . ] Sad Pr , Crozier been unknown to them , his connexion
would be a warrant for his integrity and usefulness ; but he was known here in bjs childhood , * he was , afterwardsf jtrairjied in- a gopd-school f thp JSyno , d of Mun , 8 ter ; and ^ he ^ ru ^ ed , every year would prove the justice of their choice . ' < the Syno 4 of W . unster . ' v JWh \ Croz 4 er ^ clmo . wledged bh& compliiwt ) at , in plopenlt ^ er n > jj . 4 feev , WiUfom Bmqe , « an 4 tfw Royal Belfast Institution , '
Mv- Bruce gaTe a lucid view of the fundamental principles of the institution , free from all spirit of sect or party , and eminently fitted for affording a liberal education to all . Some were loud in decrying all liberal literary education . It was a bad omen for their cause . If based in
—ignorianceT-it- 'mtist-si-nk-r' —He-doubtednot that the great enthusiasm with which the name of the institution was here received , arose partly from their own peculiar connexion with it , through the late Dr . William Nelson , and from their own experience of the benefits of a similar ,
though smaller , academy , here , which , before the institution had a name , was known by its happy fruits , not merely in Ireland , but in Scotland , Englandj-and the States of America , He would propose , before sitting : down—* The memory of Dr . Moses ISTel *
son , and of his sons , Dr . William and Rev . Arthur kelson . ' The most profound silence marked the feelings with which this was received . The company separated atari early hour , in the greatest harmony and delight , and resolved to redouble tjjeir zealous exertions for the pro ^ motion of their common causes—From y ( Correspondent of the Northern Whig ,
Siiyenth Annual Report Of : :Gi?S: ' B ' • ' A^J Pikan V Unjz&Riah A§Socjumon On Domestic
SiiYENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF : : gi ? S : ' B ' ' a ^ J pIKan V unJz&riah A § SOCjUmON ON DOMESTIC
Pressed at the Anwivehsaiiy , May 29 th . ' 1832 . frtE Executive Committee pf the American Unitarian Association , in presenting their -Seventh Annual Report , would , vyith devout gratitude , rspognise the hand of a kind Providtftyce in the unu . sual measwre of success which has atten 4 ed their ' labours . during the past year ; a year , ijt wiU he r ^ mpmb . Qred , of great commotion a ^ d ^ Xjcitement , ^ s well in the religious ^ s the political world *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/11/
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