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    satisfaction , and even those "who could not admit the doctrines which they taught , Confessed and admired triat ability and integrity imth which they were defended . " We would congratulate you upon the means which have been adopted for the dissemination of these doctrines , Which , after due examination and foil conviction , we have mutually professed a « the truth of God ; and still more upon the success which hafc attended , and still promises to attend * the spirited inanner in which these means have been

    Allowed up . - " The Book Societies , established in different parts of England for the Spread of Unitarian doctrines , have a good cfPectf with enquiring minds in producing conviction but in order to give a . sti-^ mulas to enquiry , it is necessary that there should also be popular preaching . This arrests the attention of the hearers

    to the subjects discussed , makes those who are riot given t 6 reading enter into conversation , and leads those who are , to enquire after those books from winch they may have their minds farther satkfied upon the subjects which they Rave heard . -

    ** It is worthy of remark , as affording still further ground of hope of the spread of jrational Christianity , that the popu - Jar doctrines are so repugnant to every jBense and faculty in human nature ^ by which we arrive at the-oonviction of any known and acknowledged truth ,

    tnat many tmprejUQiced , thinking persons are predisposed to embrace our ( doctrines whenever they are fairly proposed . Eor example , if man -is naturally sb corrupt and vile that he cannot think a' good thought nor do a good action , how will he ever be able to determine ipfðer the Bible is the word of God , in preference to the Alcoran , or tlie sacred books of the Chinese , or Hindoos ? How , in short , could he trust this corarupt understanding in ajry thing ? Again , if there are or can be three Almighties *> r tnflhites , why may there not-be as tnany thousands ? But indeed so soon as ' We rtj > pcfc € ! more than one such Being , Sve d&troy ^ all ideas of Infinity ot Altfiii g htiriess altogether . J ust sp ^ f mant % hef' jddciiitoe » hame 6 V ortbcdvK ; they -ire ri 6 t mytferfcb , itk the proper sense *> f the term : they are downright contradictions , feut , thanks be to Ood , that the day-dawn from on high has visited our land ; that we have reason to

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    believe that snore rational views of the object of worshi p * his character , and moral government , will take place of that bigotry , superstition , and intolerance which have so long prevailed ; and then a future age will wonder / that ever mankind were held in bondage by those dogmas which have disgraced the

    world for sq many ages . The promo * tion therefore of these grand leading truths , which it is the object of your association to promulgate , seems the only means of procuring , as their general reception will be the ineans of securing the future melioration and hap . piness of the human race , in either a

    civil or religious light . " How glorious , therefore , is the cause in which , you ( may we add we ?) are engaged . How ought it to fill an d expand our minds with sentiments a * id conduct corresponding to the high

    destiny to which thq supreme Governor of the Universer , the great , the only giver of life and happiness , has called us . May we persevere therein till death , that we may b

    The congregation at Glasgow , in conjunction with that of Paisley , has proposed to invite a minister , of standing and taleats , to settle wkh thetn on exfNpriment , for one year , wd have ptx ^ videdthc ineans of raiskvg xqoL fot his support . Whether this important and rnuch ^ to-be-desircd measure will be ca r-

    ried into effect , the Committee are unable to say : they kave been at a loss what advice to give : but the circumstance is decisive of the success of the labours of their missionaries , and , of course , qf tfec g ^ at utility of this Society which has thus in a few months called up large and respectable congre-£ atioit 8 , to uphold and advance the knowledge and worship of the One God It appears to the Committee , that if any Unitarians have hitherto entertained doubts of the use of Unitarian rniesions , the events that have paesed in Scotland inust convince thetn , i htit the ifteal of the Society is not without or bayond tnowledcrc , that Provxdewceia

    co-operatibg with and blessing trt ; and ^ thafc the set timi to fanrtur &u >* $ *< & **• •'» On the head of Stotiand , the C <* nmittee have to ad 4 which they < d 6 with unspeakable pleasure , that , encouraged by put iucc € 9 B and swayed by the im-| x > rtuaUic * of their newly coiiT ^ rtcd brc-

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    462 Intetfigtnce . —Unitarian Fund Report .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/46/