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civility by them all . Besides Unitarianism becoming now th ^ subject of much conversation far and near , he found many friends in almost all places , though the majority were not in his favour . Near Portland , in-his way to Kennebec , he was sought out by Mr . Thatcher , an enlightened member of Congress , who pre - ferred truth to all the world .
Being requested by him to lend him . a sermon of which he had heard , " and to give him leave to publish it , he readily acquiesced . The sermon , which was on the Mystery of Godliness , was immediately printed , and 400
copies of it sold in one week . People in this country cannot well conceive , what a rapid progress truth may make where there are no establishments , nor any temporal emoluments to fetter the mind against it . A little seed sown may be so productive in three
or four years , as to furnish a supply to the greatest part of a whole country . The appeal published at Philadelphia was found at Kennebec the year following , and , there is every reason to expect , that in thirty or forty years more the whole of Massachusets will be Unitarian .
Such were the labours of B . in America , during a residence ot four years . He saw the doctrines et the Bible taking root , and acquiring every day a more exten-
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or . THE NAPOLEON DEGREE 2 T « R A FRENCH UNITERSITIT ,
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sive spread . He therefore would have gladly remained in that country , to carry on the cause in which he had long laboured * But after laying a foundation on which a spacious superstructure has ever since been growing up , he finding his finances exhausted ,
was compelled to return to this country , where some , even of kis quondam Unitarian friends , whilst they congratulated him upon his sticces ^ ful transatlantic services , gave him but a cool reception .
Our fashion is to expend large sums of money in training up young men for the ministry , and to desert those who have spent their best days in our service , or to suffer them to sink unpitied
under the burden , of age and infirmities , whilst we follow our pleasures , or act only upon the spur of caprice . I devoutly wish for the spread of Unitarianism * But I wish also to see
Unitariaiis maintain a consistent character as the followers of their blessed Master , and to * make their light to shine , I am sorry , when any of them disgrace their
profession , by generally absenting themselves from the public ^ worship , or by burning their backs upon a little flock , and attending the idol temple in those places where all the rich and the fashionable resort to it , AN OLD UNITARIAN .
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The Napoleon , Decree for a French University . 307
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repoitory .
sir , I read witfh much concern , but without mucfi astonishment ,
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being not much accustomed to consider the French emperox % s the patron of liberty , either civil
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/15/
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