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with a design of training them up , by one method or another , to
complete and everlasting happiness—^ that he intends to make the sufferings of a future state conducive to the purification of their hearts and reformation of their charac - ters , and thus the means of fitting
them for that happiness which is prepared for them—and that , in these his gracious intentions towards them , he is influenced , not by the interposition , the labours ^
the sufferings , the intercession oi any other being whatever , hut wholly and solely hy his own inherent inclination ( an inclination essential to bis nature and
inseparable from it ) to communicate happiness , in the highest possible degree , and to the greatest possible extent ? This latter system , Sir , ( with pleasure , with
exultation and triumph , he it avowed 1 ) is the Unitarian system . If the testimony of an obscure individual may be received and credited , the writer of this letter solemnly declares , that he never experienced a real ,-rational , well-grounded
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love to God , till he embraced thi » system . With all his heart does he thank God ^ who , by leading him to the knowledge and belief of it , has called him out of darkness into light . And this system ,.
from his happy experience of its effects , it shall be the latent labour of his life to hold up ' asworthy to be approved hy the judgment , received into the heart and honoured in the conduct- of all
with whom he has to do . Wishing that a principle , which ( he is convinced by experience ) cannot exist but as established on the system of Unitarianism , may take possession of every , heart , and
may be , to every rational creature , the guide of all his actions and Jfche source of his hopes ; he begs leave , to submit these thoughts to the public through the channel of the
Monthly Repository ( a publication so eminently favourable te the promotion of love to God and to man ) and to subscribe himself Mr . Editor , Your ' s , respectfully , J . T . E .
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On Sunday SchooU amongst Unitarian ?* 59 f
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ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS AMONGST UNITARIANS ,
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V To the * Editor of the Monthly Repository .
but , As I consider the Repository the only medium of communica ^ tion between Unitarians connected by the tie of a common faith , but personally unknown to each uther , I shall beg leave , through
your means , to call their attention to . a subject , which , some time ago , excited general attention in the religious worlds—I mean that of Sunday schools . When this bcii eyoleat plan wasfost proposed
it coincided so well with the libe - ral views of Unitarians , that many societies adopted it with ardour ; and it is with concern I have heard , that there are yet many considerable congregations without one of
these schools , and that in some places , tlxe personal exertions of the members are not so actively employed to render them benefit cial as they were at first . I hopo I shall not be considered as trespassing upon your readers *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/15/
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